Venice/Munich Travel day

WOW!!!, what a day. Our last night in Venice was amazing. First off, we just finally got a chance to get lost and just walk around and check out the city. A little gelato, a little shopping, and before you know it, it’s dinner time. We trusted Rick Steves on dinner, and it was a pretty good experience. The ambience was great, and the food was pretty good (matt’s pizza was really good, the rest of ours was ok). We topped off our dinner with a little after dinner drink/dessert, which Matt just LOVED!!!!, you’ll have to ask him about his spritz. To finally cap off the night, we made it around to a gondola ride. It was pricey, but we had a great time. We waited until the last possible second to catch one, but that meant we had the moonlit canals to ourselves. Our gondolier was amazing as he gave us a pretty good history lesson of Venice and was more than excited to talk about tornadoes (sinc e he found out we lived in a state with them). Overall, Venice was GREAT!!!

Then came the travel day…

What to say what to say. We made it to the train station with more than enough time to get organized. We even got some lunch and got on the train early to relax. We had a stop over in Verona to change trains and that’s where the fun began. Supposedly Verona is more than the Montague’s and Capulet’s. It is a big enough city to have TWO train stations named after it. One for the outer city limits, and one for the main station. Well our connection was for the main station, but we didn’t realize that the other station was also named Verona, so we got off the train and went to catch our connector when we realized we got off at the wrong stop. So we had 20 minutes to get to the other train station that was only a 5 minute train ride away. Easy huh? Well, not when no one knows how to use the pay phones to call for a cab or will use their cell phones to call a cab for 5 euro (true story, cow, for 5 euro, I’d drive someone 5 minutes down the road). So we ended up missing our train. After we finally made it to the correct Verona train station, we tried to figure out if we had to buy a new ticket or just get on the later train to munich. Turns out, we were able to get on the train with no problems and got seats together. So even though we were arriving in Munich two hours later than we thought, we weren’t out any more money which is always a plus. Hopefully that’s the worst thing that will happen to us.

So that’s where we are, finally in Munich where the weather is absolutely wonderful. Cool enough tonight to even warrant a jacket. PERFECT for a change. Well, tommorow is a walking tour of the city, so hopefully we’ll have a new post with some cool pics. Till the next time.


on the gondola

View of the Rialto Bridge from the middle of the canal

view from the gondola

Grand Canal at night.

Hangin out by the canal

more of the same.