Venice, Italy 7/2 - 7/7

On the way to Venice we passed back through Florence at 9:30pm wndbhad to wait until 1:40am which was fine, hazards of budget travel, except for how they turned the station lights off between trains which was quite scary and seemed dangerous, so we waited in the tlwell-lit tunnels below and got eaten alive by bugs while playing cards. Then got on a 4 hour ride to Venice in a cramped cabin with 4 other guys that got delayed am extra 80 minutes and had no a/c. Sucked.  On to a 30 minute trek to our camping village. We were absolutely dead when we arrived at 10am.

Here we stayed in a camping village on the outskirts of Venice on the mainland (10min away from Venice via camp provided shuttle bus). Same company as Rome and florence, and just as nice as the one in Rome. Weather was very hot though, and we and other backpackers referred to our house tents lovingly as 'sweat boxes'. Basically being in them after 9am and before 11pm was absolute hell, which forced us to get up earlier than usual. We also utilized the pool wayyy more, one day we were there from 10am-8pm. I had tweaked my back the night before and it felt awesome to just rest a day going from pool to whirlpool over and over with intermittent meals from the camp restaurant.

Venice itself was very cool. So different to be in a place with no roads and no grass or trees. Just the canals. The street sellers that try to hand you roses so they can charge you after you take it were easily ignored, and all of the glass shops had awesome items for sale.

Just wandering around we walked across the entire city twice in a day, trying to take alleys and stay off the tourist packed areas when possible. No mosquitos here somehow, even though they swarm the camping village.

In the Marc plaza, street sellers sell pidgeon food and put it in your hand and pidgeons jump all over ur arms. Looked fun, but don't birds carry some diseases? I avoided that.

Animal of note:

Name: Kebab - pidgeon with a limp that we couldn't resist giving some of our leftover scraps that were going to go in the trash after eating some kebabs that we are now addicted to.