Monday, November 28, 2011

Venice Trip 2011 - Day 2

Posted by Rae at 7:10 AM

Our first night in Venice is pleasant~ Waking up early in the morning to get ourself ready~

We got a canal view from our hotel room~ a really beautiful one~

but whats different from Venice is, you dont see rubbish truck collecting rubbish in the morning~ well, you'll see rubbish boat instead =D

hahaha damn cool right >.<

walk down to the hotel restaurant for breakfast~

not too fancy, just some simple buffet breakfast everyday~

with healthy grapefruit juice~

they served some really tasty croissant too!

yum!

Finish having our breakfast, its time to explore the city!!

Venice in the morning~

we need to walk about 20min to our destination, the whole place is totally like a maze, and there is a saying that people come to venice to get lost... coz no one can find their way easily no matter where you wanna go.. and eventually everyone got lost in the city everyday in everywhere~

we are lucky coz we pre load the map on my phone before we came to venice, all thanks to google map, we didnt get lost too much =D

crossing from one island to the other whenever we are crossing a bridge

and every 5 steps we move forward we spot a nice view to take photo

and this happend all the way till~~

every corner every street is an art wtf

oh ya, the bridges too!!

love it!!

canal and a boat

small alley

small market

we are very lucky to have a clear blue sky that day~ rumor said that this only happend 3 days a year omg

more photo in Venice

big warm shiny sun

but still cold.. its only about 7 - 9 degree in the morning

we've been walking and stopping by for taking photo the whole long way, but still we need to make it quick coz we still need to make it to our meeting point for a walking tour~

me all wrap up warm~ ^^

as what SJ said, any place in Venice is a good place for taking photo like a post card~

saw some guys advertising for a theater play wearing the traditional outfit!

the bridge crossing over the Grand Canal

The Highway in Venice! Cool right!?

me and the highway hahaha

its so much better looking then the ordinary road that we got!

and here is more postcard look-a-like photos~

finally, we arrived at San Marco Square~ there is a smart choice to visit Venice in November, coz during summer, its almost impossible to walk around in here... how crazy is that?

our meeting point is at the entrance of the royal garden, and there is few minute more till the tour start, we can sit there and wait for it to begin~ and we saw lots of cute fat pigeons around us! so cute!!

me waiting!

photo of us taking pic of each other =D

like this!

my SJ ^^

Our tour guide is here, she started to introduce herself~

the tour begin in San Marco Square~ Right infront of the Venice gate!

next~ St Mark's Basilica~

look how beautiful it is!

with the wing lion on top! the symbol of venice!

we are walking around the Venice for 2 hours, and our guide is providing us all the history and information we need

pigeons showering =D

The Basilica di San Giovanni e Paolons

Hospital

the bronze statute of Venetian army commander Colleoni

and lastly, this is where we end our walking tour~

Our guide giving us direction to wherever we wanna go~ thats so thoughtful of her, else we all gonna get lost again..

this is a taxi stand =D

the lover's bridge ^^ so romantic!

we go for a local restaurant for some quick lunch before our 2nd tour start

on our way back to Piazzale San Marco

looking over to the venice gate

this is the mosaic in San Mark's Basilica! all with real gold!

at the aisle in San Marco Square

gorgeous view!!

camwhore!

there is lots of stalls selling the venetian masks! all so pretty!!

and its not cheap! 18 euro is the cheapest series you can get..

feel like buying some ady!!

at the pier

back in the Royal garden to wait for our 2nd tour, and saw these fluffy cute pigeon again!

there is a nice old couple from London feeding those pigeon =D

such an amazing scene...

our 2nd tour is taking a 1 hour boat touring the canal~

here we go!

its really nice that we get such a good weather!

excited!

getting on our water taxi ^^

each of the water taxi can only fit in 6 passengers~

the interior

our guide for the boat tour

View from the canal!

open air top

we listen to more history and funny facts about venice during the one hour tour

and the sun begin to set when the tour almost finish

our pic in the water taxi

my new sunglasses =D

back on the pier

we are free for the remaining afternoon, so we decided to walk around and explore the city by ourself~

done exploring the city, time to shop!!

was thinking to get myself a pair of Hunter boots coz mine too old ady!

but again... the smallest size is still too BIG for me! plus its really heavy..

but i really like it!! to get it or not to get it??

ended up we walk out from the store empty handed :(

and then cheer up abit when seeing the nice view from the lover's bridge

the sky is soon getting dark... we saw some restaurant along the canal, so we both think its a great idea to have a romantic dinner by the canal~!

we randomly choose a restaurant which display lots of live seafood infront of it!

HUGE lobster!!

we choose an outdoor seat by the canal~ its very cold at night but they placed a heater stand right beside us ^^

order a glass of splitz~ one of the cocktail drink that u must try in Venice~

cheers~

a photo of us before the dinner served~

while waiting.... my phone's battery remain full after the whole day! not turning on 3G and wifi really save up alot!

our view

love the moment~

our stater is served!! super fresh tasty yummy calamari rings!!

SJ's bolognese spaghetti

and this is mine!!

first time trying our squid ink pasta =D

its so black and it scared me! and i just realize that its in heart shape wtf... sigh its italian...

the squid ink leave all the black stain in my mouth when eating!! its really not good to see but honestly, its so tasty! i can finish this whole plate by myself!