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Today was our last day in Venice, and we're waiting in the hotel lobby for our train to arrive in about an hour. We didn't do much today, just wandered around, got some pizza, and sat along the Grand Canal eating some chocolate.
Yesterday I got my first free time alone during the trip, and got completely lost in the streets of Venice which was quite fun. I also checked out the Doge's Palace, which was the center of Venitian government hundreds of years ago, and was really interesting.
Venice is also unique in that there are no cars to get run over by. Which is quite nice for how I typically handle crossing streets, I feel I would live longer here probably.
After dinner (pizza, of course!) we went out clubbing. Downtown Venice isn't exactly a nightlife hotspot, but we had a lot of fun, and the music here is *way* better than the states. Actually they played quite a lot of American pop, but it was pop, not rap, so it was a lot of fun.
I've been trying to eat as much gelato as I can while I have the chance, I'm really going to miss that stuff. I also wish I would have brought something to read, I figured I wouldn't have time and it'd save room on packing, but I forgot about all the hours on the plane and on trains. The flight back is going to be pretty brutal, it's an 11 hour hop across the pond to Chicago, then to Dallas, and then to Austin, getting in after 19 hours of traveling.
All in all, Rome was by far my favorite place of the trip. I really like huge cities, and Rome has so much to see and do and is such a cultural center of the world. But I also highly recommend Venice, the canals are really pretty and neat, and I love the crazy confusing streets that make no sense and even the maps don't know where anything is.
This will probably be the last update before I get back to Austin, and it'll take me a while to sort through the 1500+ photos I've taken (including about hmmmm 100 shots of just the various canals here) but I promise to get them up soon. Ciao!
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