venezia

So this past weekend we went to Venice and I was surprisingly disappointed. It was a cold and windy day, but there were random spots of sun around the city (which we didn't see often because almost all of Venice is old back alleys)...so maybe that had something to do with it. My bus left bright and early at 6 am, we

had a 4 hour bus ride there, and immediately had a 2 hour walking tour. This tour was the strangest tour I've ever been on--my tour guide took us to

things like the Jewish quarter and outside a high school and things like that. The company that I'm traveling with (API) is pretty big so the tour groups were split up into much smaller groups and we got a weird tour gu

ide. However, the only interesting fact I learned about Venice is that only about 40% of the buildings are occupied there. The other thing was that since it's February and everyone in Europe is celebrating Carnevale, this was one of the biggest ones. After having such a long morning, all I wanted to do was get in bed after being in such a huge crowd. I added a picture so you guys could see how ridiculously packe

d it

was...and the picture isn't even just a crowded area, the entire city was this crowded and the

picture doesn't

even do it justice.

The other thing was that the main square where car

nevale takes place there, Piazza di San Marco, was flooded and they didn't put the boards over the water

that they u

sually put up for people to walk on. I tried to get a picture of myself in fr

ont of the giant cathedral there but it didn't work out because it

was way too

crowded to get a picture without someone walki

ng in

front of

the camera, so I got one of it without myself in front of it. Anyway, that's about all I have to say about Venice really. I'll attach a few more pictures of the city. In 2 days I'll be going on a trip to Nice, Cannes, and Monte Carlo. It should be a good trip.