Venice

Hello! again, sorry about the delay, it's been a busy couple of months. Tim's still here, we're just bumming around Freiburg for now, recouperating after our trip and then my week of exhaustive final paper writing. anyway, onto the trip-telling!

4 Venice was way cool. The trip there? not so much. Instead of taking a fast train, we took a regional that should have takenhours, broke down, and ended up taking 8. It was disasterous. We got off in Venice, but quickly realized we needed to get off a stop earlier. We took a train back to Marghera and then a bus to our Hotel where this sweet older Italian woman was kind enough to let us check in at about 10:30pm. We were starving, so I asked the woman at the desk (in Italian!) where we could get some food, and she pointed us to an Italian resturaunt down the street. Then we had the best Risotto ever. We ordered too much food in general though, and we could hear the wait staff laughing at us on the other side of the bar, but it was ok because they let us take most of it home.

The next morning when we were about to leave the little old man at the front desk asked us if we wanted Coffee, and then made us free Cappuccinos. to our delight, he said, "you can't go outside in Italy without Coffee!" it was by far the best cappuccinos we had the entire trip. After, we went to Venice proper and saw St. Marc's square and the Peggy Guggenheim. the Guggenheim was AWESOME. so much Pollock and calder and kandinsky! We also saw the Modern Art Museum where we got to see more Kandinskys and Calders and Klimts. It was awesome, here are some photos:
this is St. Marc's square. the whole inside of the church was gold.the pigeons in St. Marcs square are absolutely insane. This is just some guy, Tim and I were too chicken to feed the pigeons ourselves.

We only spent a day in Venice. it was cool, and we both agree that we loved it, but it was definately doable in a day. By 6 or so we ran out of sights to see.