Ditsy is begeerlijk, comprende?

No… no comprende at all…

Our Venetian hostel offered a selection of 3 books. One of these was American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. I’ve been meaning to read this book, so I took it. It wasn’t until I tried to read it that I realized it was printed in Dutch. I’m keeping it anyways. I plan on taking it to Madrid and leaving it there.

American Psycho

So without plentiful amounts of money, we ran out of stuff to do in Venice rather quickly. We window shopped (okay so I did buy a couple things…). We did end up doing a lot of people watching and dog watching. There are a lot of cute dogs there and most of them come in matching sets! Venice is beautiful but tough to do on a tight budget.

The City:

Another beautiful view of Venice.

Gondaliers’ oars.

The Food:

Gelato!

Yummy window

We left Venice in the morning for Florence! Florence is beautiful. I love the architecture here. There is an actual city vibe here and locals. We’re here with one of Neera’s friends from Germany. Our hostel is pretty cool so far. Not too much to write about as of yet since we just got in but we had a wonderful dinner near our hostel. The staff was kind of rude, but the food was great. The Duomo and the Accademia tomorrow! Also leather market and trying not to spend too much money.

The City:A flower shop near out hostel

Piazza San Marco

The street.

The Food:

Pasta with wild boar… yummmm!

Can’t wait to explore Florence tomorrow!

Where’s the Wee-Fee?

I’m not going to lie; we spent most of our time in Nice in the hostel. It had a great common room and lounge and free wi-fi, of which I took full advantage. We did take a nice walk around at night and found Nice was still very pretty.

After we departed Nice, we spent the majority of the day one trains to Venice… not super exciting. We arrived in the city around 7 pm. Surprisingly, I think my French (which is better than I thought it would be) is actually stronger than my Italian (which apparenltly stinks) … weird.

Our hostel here is weird. Actually, it pretty much sucks. There’s no front desk, computer access, or internet. But the room is big and as far as I can tell it’s clean, so it’s not worth complaining about too much. We finally found free wi-fi (or wee-fee as I now like to call it) in a pizza shop 10 minutes from our hostel.

Venice is beautiful and there are a lot of cute clothing shops and souvenir  shops. It is however, rather crowded and touristy. Also things are very very expensive here. But hey, we’re in Venezia!

On the second day in Venice, Neera and I went to Murano. We saw some artisans create insane shapes out of molten glass. It was pretty astonishing. There were so many gorgeous sculptures and intricate designs… unfortunately this stuff is also very very expensive. Later, we met up with one of our old roromies from Paris for a drink. We went to a fun jazz bar with bras on the ceiling (always an indication of a good time) and then another tiny hole in the wall place near the Rialto Bridge. It’s kind of amazing we got to meet up with someone we met just a week before in a totally new country.

Leaving for Florence in the morning. Ciao!

The People:

A nun sitting across from us on the train to Venice.

Some tourists feeding pigeons in the Piazza San Marco… They’re letting them perch on their arms… I find this behavior disgusting and horrifying. They’re PIGEONS! Ewwww….

A rather attractive gondalier.

Neera looking at her bank statement. Not a staged photo.

The City:

The Grand Canal at night.

The Grand Canal in the day.

A view from the water bus on the way to Murano.

The Pizzeria where the Wi-Fi lives!

The Food:

Mmmmmm….

Pizza!