I arrived in the lovely city of Venice by train early afternoon and immediately was stunned by the beauty of the city. Not just the buildings though! Everyone in Italy dresses to impress! The only people around here who dress in what we would term daggy, are the tourists, and my goodness!.. there are plenty of them! All the locals are dressed in designer clothing, even the Vaporetti (water bus) conductors have designer sunglasses. Emma and I are feeling slightly under-dressed even when catching a bus!
My first sight of the city of Venice.
We've been spending our days walking about, exploring this wonderful city, getting lost in the winding narrow streets. The islands of Venice are also special, and again, when I can, I'll add some photos. One memorable moment was in a large park on the central island, Emma and I were walking towards a group of pigeons when suddenly the WHOLE FLOCK of them just flew towards us! As we barely managed to refrain from screaming, the pigeons literally flew all around us! It was like attack of the zombie pigeons or something!!! Emma tried in vain to duck, while my strategy was to remain as still as possible! I did have to resist the urge to duck behind Emma though!! HAHA!!
Our accomodation here has been wonderful! We are however on the 3rd floor (Lara, remind you of anywhere?), however our window looks out directly onto a little street with a D&G shop so I feel that whatever I'm wearing, I'm in designer housing at least.
The view from outside our Venetian apartmento!
We're leaving Venice today to head to Bologna to spend a couple of nights and then onto Florence. I hope to update this post with some photos and details as there's lots to tell still about Venice, including Emma and I nearly getting a rose seller guy arrested as well as us constantly being accosted by Euro-Africans to buy designer imposter bags! Insane!!
4 comments:
aarrggghhh! danoir i'm so jealous right now! just read all the posts and can't wait to travel at the end of the year! can't wait for the next installment of your journey you are at the top of my list of favourites xx
Hey Dan Dan! So glad that you are having a great time. I feel the fashion pressure here in Buenos Aires. My wardrobe of two pants and three t-shirts is not cutting it! I can´t imagine what you are feeling in Italy! Ha ha. Loving the blog even with its complete narcisitic undertones! Miss ya xox
I am begining to think my life is dull as I am at the moment living for the next post!!! Keep writing!!!
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