Venice

Catching up on my adventures...Venice was a lot of fun. The hostel was relatively expensive compared to others, but the crowd was cool, the price included dinner, and we had one hell of a Friday night out. I walked around with people from the hostel on Friday afternoon after my train arrived from Rome. Saw the Doge's Palace, the Basilica, etc...a few of us took a few turns off the beaten path to just walk around Venice itself for a while. Fun times...I like doing that in every city for a little while.

Thoughts? Venice is like nothing I've ever seen. I could compare other cities I'd been to on this trip with cities I had previously visited...but not Venice. Two sad things: only 60k people live there and it's sinking. So it's a tourist trap and it will eventually disappear. nuts.

On Saturday we did the typical walking around thing (once I got up and recovered with some water). I actually ran into three people from Friday night just walking around a corner...(a guy from the hostel (cool) and two girls who were staying at a hotel nearby (not cool)). Eventually I could tell the girls didn't really want me around so I took a left when they took a right and wandered some more. I went back to the hostel and resisted the urge to take a nap...looked up where the Palazzo Balbi was and walked there. Saturday night was far more tame, a bunch of people had to get out of town early (myself included)...so just hanging out talking and listening to music with a couple new arrivals (Aussie guys).