Italy Trip #1: Venice!
after a traumatising ride on ryanair, we finally reached our destination - venice!! we took a free ride on e vaporetto to our hotel.. i also duno why it’s free wahaha.. somehow we din see any tix booth n din noe where to buy tix n no one checked on us haha..
at san lio tourist house
havin our first supper
shoppin on rialto bridge..
Rialto, e 1st bridge built across e Grand Canal, which was mentioned in e Merchant of Venice!
at san lio tourist house
havin our first supper
our supper was pizza frm a nearby bar which cost €3.50 per slice, plus peach tea which costs €3.50 per bottle. we were so shocked at e price of e drink.. that was before we got used to e exhorbitant prices ard e touristy sites. haha..
at doge’s palace
we visited e doge’s palace, where we went on a secret itinerary guided tour! e guide brought us to e cell where e famous casanova once stayed in and planned his infamous escape. we also visited other secret rooms like e torture chamber(!) n e attic etc..
e beautifully decorated ceiling in one of e rooms
e beautifully decorated ceiling in one of e rooms
photo takin was not allowed durin e secret itinerary n in many major rooms in e palace.. but us bein stupid singaporeans, jus hadda die die take some of them secretly. LOL! e ceilings were actually painted in gold n looked really magnificient, but e colors werent captured in e pic as i din use flash.
xiao xing tryin to get himself in e pic while i took a quick snap haha!
that’s us at st mark’s basilica!
xiao xing tryin to get himself in e pic while i took a quick snap haha!
that’s us at st mark’s basilica!
the campanile (bell tower) at st mark’s square.
everythin looks really beautiful! ok note.. it’s e start of e trip.. so yup, everythin looks really beautiful. after 10 days, e buildings look abt e same everywhere wahaha!
us havin lunch at Al Vaporetto.
we had our first lunch at a restaurant far away frm st mark’s square so it’d be cheaper. there i had e best pasta i’ve had in italy!! a simple spaghetti wif clams, but it was so well done, we went back again e followin day (only to find it closed)!
shoppin on rialto bridge..
Rialto, e 1st bridge built across e Grand Canal, which was mentioned in e Merchant of Venice!
the beautiful sky.. on rialto. somehow baby jus can’t take e same nice pics for me!
it was short 2 day visit to venice, but we felt 2 full days was jus abt rite. we did quite a fair bit of walkin along e interestingly built, RPG-like streets, but e shops din exactly attract me. think they were too touristy n commercialised.. i was only attracted to e exquisite lookin masks but i din get any cos e one i liked cost €23! siao…
baby on e vaporetto, on our way to e train stn.
me n xiao xing bear bear on e train. cortina here we come!!
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