venice, italy

I am in love with Venice, Italy.

We arrived here four days ago…our first night we came into the city on a water taxi. It was exactly how you probably imagine Venice to be.

No cars

Water canals

Gondola rowers wearing only blue or red-stripped shirts

Amazing ancient architecture

Gelato

Narrow Ally ways

The best Italian food ever

No two buildings alike

And, did I mention accordion players?

Its more amazing than I thought it would be.

We stayed in a hotel the night we arrived….We had to navigate our way through the city by asking local store employees that spoke English where to go. After walking in a million different tiny ally ways we finally came across our hotel office

To our surprise, the hotel clerk started heading us back outside into the allies after we checked in. We went about a block away when the hotel clerk unlocked 3 doors before we got to our “hotel room” that was actually just a random room in a sketchy building in the middle of the city. It was AWESOME. Although, Bronson, Sam, Corey and myself all thought about how easy it would be to stab someone in the eerily quiet and secluded allies. Kind of creepy to say the least.

After we dropped off our stuff and discovered our beday, we wanted to get some genuine Italian grub…This is when we realized Italians completely and utterly hate Americans.

When we came across a place that wreaked of the best Italian pizza on earth we sat down….our waiter was a wonderful nice old man…..until we opened our mouths and he found out we were American. He then turned on us…..for example….Sam asked him if we could get some bread to go with our fresh mozzarella and tomatoes…. He looked at us like we ran over his family dog…. Serious scary stink eye….He was so pissed off.

We’ve had many experiences like this over the last 4 days…

One in particular was when I tried on this apron…the street vendor came around the corner and started yelling every Italian swearword imaginable at us…seriously yelling….we could hear him even when we walked a good 50 feet away… Ranting and raving and throwing his arms up in the air. It was soo funny.

The next morning we got to our ship and realized we were in Venice one day longer than we thought we would be because of all the controversy in Athens, Greece (our next stop on the cruise). We were so sad not to stop in Athens but on the positive side, it gave us an extra day in Venice and made us fall even more in love with Italy.

The ship is also wonderful if you wondering…..im loving every moment and I can’t believe there is actually more amazing sites to see! I’ll keep you posted!