Venizia, Italia

After hearing all about Venice from my parents, and how much I would love it, I was SUPER excited to get there and figure it all out :)

We flew into the Venice airport, then took a train to get to our hotel. We were staying just outside of Venice in Quarto D'Altino. A quaint little town about 30 minutes outside of Venice. It was quite the trek to find out hotel, and I was a little worried about how far it was to the train station. When we got there, it was absolutely beautiful! The people were so amazing, nice and accommodating, and there were even bikes to rent! We could take them to the train station, lock them there for the day, then bike back.




Everyone at the hotel spoke English, but Adrian was impressive with his Italian skills! I even learn a bit myself :)

We had 4 days before we had to head back to Lyon, so Adrian and I decided to explore out Quarto D'Altino for the evening. We biked around a little, and went to a real Italian Pizzeria for dinner! We each had a MASSIVE delicious pizza. Or so we thought.....



Unfortunately that night, Adrian woke up in the middle of the night with a pretty bad case of food poisoning..... He was up most of the night puking :( and in general not feeling well. Definitely not feeling up to going into Venice that day. I wasn`t too worried, as we still had the next two full days to visit it!

I had an amazing breakfast from the hotel, and lounged by the pool in the gorgeous Italian sunshine all day long :)

The next day he was feeling a little better, so we headed into Venice! We got out of the train station right onto the edge of the Grand Canal. Venice isn't that large, so we decided just to wander around on our own and explore the canals and tiny shops. Venice was full of mask and glass shops. They were EVERYWHERE!







Venice was absolutely beautiful. I loved just wandering through the alleys, watching the people on the gondola`s (which were 80 euros for 30minutes, so we unfortunately did NOT go on one :s).





Gondola Jam!

We wandered through the shops, purchased some souveniers and gifts for people back home. Of COURSE I got Gelato :)








We wandered past the bridge of sighs although it was mostly covered due to construction which continued to plague me throughout my treks across Europe.

We went to the Piazza San Marco, and saw St. Mark`s Basilica. Waited in the huge line, and wandered through the beautiful church.




The Rialto Bridge was cool, but PACKED with people, so you couldn't enjoy it to it's fullest.






We stayed for the afternoon, but Adrian wasn`t feeling up to eating real food yet, and was also pretty tired so we headed back to our hotel. I got a sandwhich at a restaraunt in Quarto D'Altino, and then it was my turn to feel terrible. I wasn`t as bad as Adrian, but not fun. So our last day in Italy I spent in bed all day :(

We left early in the morning for our flight back to Lyon. And despite the unfortunate bouts of who knows what kind of sickness, we both had an AMAZING time throughout the entire trip :) Defintely a good way for Adrian to spend his time visiting me!!