On the morning of 18th of June we checked out from our nun monastery and went to look for a place to eat breakfast. After enjoying a nice italian breakfast outdoors we waited an internet cafe to open before leaving for Venice. We had to search a hostel or a place to stay in Venice. Our regional train left for Venice 1.18pm so we had lots of time before leaving, most of which be spent in front of the train station enjoying the sun and the first really warm weather! :)
The train ride went really fast and we got off at Venizia Mestro or something like that. Like every other city we looked for an info and asked a map of Venice and the answer was: "First you need to take a 10 minute train ride to Venice..." Oooops. So after we really were in Venice we tried again. We had heard that Venice is really expensive and that's why we had decided to stay there only for one night. When we asked about the map, they told us that we need to buy it..! Also in the info they told us that the hostel we had searched online earlier the same morning was located in that Mestro something place 10 minutes train ride away.. We were really pissed of and resolved it to first go to the harbour where the Minoan Lines company was and buy the ship tickets for the next day. It took us an hour to get there. We bought tickets to this tram or whatever it was, walked there like a lot with the heavy backpacks and sun shining. We were almost there when this man working in the harbour came to us and told us that the office is closed.. At this point we were starving, heavy bags on your backs getting heavier my the minute, we were in the middle of nowhere and no place to go. We were pretty desperate. We walked another almost hour back and to the info (different one this time..) they were about to close also so we got this notebook full of hotels, hostel and other places to sleep. By this point we were sitting on the floor of some parking garage. We had the map, notebook and phone. We knew which areas of Venice were the most expensive so we didn't choose them. We chose an area that was rather close to us where we were at the time. Then I just started to call to different bed and breakfast or other places. The prices were ridiculous! From 85-130€/ night!! The fifth call was only 55€/night and that divided by two! It was this old sounding woman on the phone and we told her that okey, we are coming! :D
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| The way to Casa Chiumento |
We walked through these narrow streets of Venice and over these small bridges and admired the atmosphere of Venice before we found our place to stay. It was located near this one square and it took us a while and little help needed from a local man before we got there. It was called Casa Chiumento and the woman was old and lived upstairs. The room was tiny, only two small beds and small night stand between, we loved it! :)
We went out to eat to this near by restaurant and after that we started to look for the famous Rialto bridge which was the oldest bridge across tha canal. Near the bridge there were plenty of glamourous shops and also near the bridge we asked about to gondola ride but the prices were insane! It was 80-100€ for a short period of time! I would have wanted to see the Bridge of Signs but we decided that the gondola was way too expensive for our budget. Then we headed to Piazza San Marco by waterbus and the one way ticket was 7,5€! :D
All in all the city was amazing! It was hard to try to understand how everything is almost like floating. How have they built the city? It's like from some fairytale story (again.. :D ). Two steps from the place we stayed in was this small canal and if you wanted to leave the other way you needed a boat.
The next morning we woke up at 7 o'clock and left early without our bags to walk to the Minoan Lines office to buy the tickets for 7pm leaving boat to Greece. It took us 35minutus to walk there and we got the tickets easily. It only cost us 17€ each because we had our interrailing cards and it could be used on that company too. After that we walked back to our place and went out to eat breakfast and hang around at this cosy cafe. We weren't that eager to walk around with our backpacks.. :D It was a good weather so we decided to walk to the harbour where we spent time by playing cards before getting into the ship around 2pm. :)
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