Mia, Matt and I decided to go to Venice one Saturday. Easy...¨facile¨we thought since we just finished an entire class on how to buy a tickets, find out the departure-arrival time, how to ask for the track number, etc..
We did it...we asked for the tickets in Italian, found out the bus schedule in Italian and we were ready for our field trip.
We took a bus from Grado to Cervignano then a train from Cervignano to Venice. That was easy, we got there with enough time to have a coffee and a small panini. Then the train to Venice came and we boarded it. Again, easy...boarding was easy....it got a little difficult when the train stopped and the conductor started to say something in Italian and when he finished the other passengers started looking at each other and getting out cell phones and looking nervous.
Believe it or not...Mia, Matt and I understood 80% of the announcement. There was a delay and they were not sure when the train would be moving. Delay...for what???? Oh excellent...a protest across the train tracks because President Bush was in Italy, in Rome. Yikes! The Italians were protesting his visit. Oh well, we still wanted to get to Venice.
We followed others and bought a bus ticket to Venice. That took a while to do because none of us had change and even if you paid me a million dollars to ask someone for change in Italian, I still wouldn´t remember. Matt figured it out and bought 3 tickets.
After 30 minutes of waiting for a bus, the train started to run again. We ran and jumped on it. So now, we had useless bus tickets. Oh well..were were on our way to Venice. We got there and realized we didn´t go to the correct Venice station...so we had to take a taxi to the Venice canals.
It was a gorgeous day. We walked and ate and had a great day. Venice is beautiful. I´ll upload pictures when I can find a place that has a USB cord. The small little streets were so amazing. You could get lost in one second. Awesome place.
One bad thing about Venice...I think there are more pigeons in Venice than in NYC. I was completely freaking out. They were everywhere and people actually pay to have the pigeons sit on their arms, heads, etc... I was compeltely grossed out. Meghan, you would have had a heart attack!
Mia and I decided to take a gondola ride. It was wonderful...for the first 3 minutes that I was awake. I fell fast asleep for almost the entire ride. It was the most expensive nap I have ever had. For those that know me very well...I´m sure you are not surprised. I can sleep anywhere at anytime! Just ask Kristina and Andrew about the time I fell asleep at dinner...in a restaurant. Anyway, Mia said the gondola ride was beautiful. I saw her pictures.
So...getting back home to Grado was easy....the train was on time and then we took a taxi from Cervignano because there were no more buses....oh one mistake we made, we read the bus schedule wrong so we had a take a taxi...no more buses to Grado that night.
We did it...we asked for the tickets in Italian, found out the bus schedule in Italian and we were ready for our field trip.
We took a bus from Grado to Cervignano then a train from Cervignano to Venice. That was easy, we got there with enough time to have a coffee and a small panini. Then the train to Venice came and we boarded it. Again, easy...boarding was easy....it got a little difficult when the train stopped and the conductor started to say something in Italian and when he finished the other passengers started looking at each other and getting out cell phones and looking nervous.
Believe it or not...Mia, Matt and I understood 80% of the announcement. There was a delay and they were not sure when the train would be moving. Delay...for what???? Oh excellent...a protest across the train tracks because President Bush was in Italy, in Rome. Yikes! The Italians were protesting his visit. Oh well, we still wanted to get to Venice.
We followed others and bought a bus ticket to Venice. That took a while to do because none of us had change and even if you paid me a million dollars to ask someone for change in Italian, I still wouldn´t remember. Matt figured it out and bought 3 tickets.
After 30 minutes of waiting for a bus, the train started to run again. We ran and jumped on it. So now, we had useless bus tickets. Oh well..were were on our way to Venice. We got there and realized we didn´t go to the correct Venice station...so we had to take a taxi to the Venice canals.
It was a gorgeous day. We walked and ate and had a great day. Venice is beautiful. I´ll upload pictures when I can find a place that has a USB cord. The small little streets were so amazing. You could get lost in one second. Awesome place.
One bad thing about Venice...I think there are more pigeons in Venice than in NYC. I was completely freaking out. They were everywhere and people actually pay to have the pigeons sit on their arms, heads, etc... I was compeltely grossed out. Meghan, you would have had a heart attack!
Mia and I decided to take a gondola ride. It was wonderful...for the first 3 minutes that I was awake. I fell fast asleep for almost the entire ride. It was the most expensive nap I have ever had. For those that know me very well...I´m sure you are not surprised. I can sleep anywhere at anytime! Just ask Kristina and Andrew about the time I fell asleep at dinner...in a restaurant. Anyway, Mia said the gondola ride was beautiful. I saw her pictures.
So...getting back home to Grado was easy....the train was on time and then we took a taxi from Cervignano because there were no more buses....oh one mistake we made, we read the bus schedule wrong so we had a take a taxi...no more buses to Grado that night.
Overall, it was an excellent day.
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