Drop the food Natalie!! Drop the food!!
Ciao from Italia! My first night in Venice was pretty interesting. We camped at Fusina (a port in Venice) in cabins that had an infestation of mosquitos. No one was exempt from being eaten alive, the showers were your own private flesh eating tombs. So, back in Austria, after my bad day, I promised my Aussie mates that Id come out and have a few drinks them... my first and only night of drinking and I got totally pissed! Pissed = drunk in Australian. Nathaniel and Eddie gave me something called Sambuca without having dinner and I was so drunk I couldnt find the bathroom or my way to the chow hall, so I basically missed half of d inner. I went back to my room around 9 and passed out and was woken up around 3 am by a new girl I was rooming with. She had somehow fallen in the water and came back dripping wet! Well, it wouldnt be a drunken Natalie night without a stupid comment, so the day before these 2 girls were trying to lure our fine-hot-young bus driver back to their rooms, one girl even offered him pretzels... so as I got off the bus (the night before my drunken incident) I said, " youre pretty popular with the ladies, pretzels eh?" and as i got off the bus he said "well i didnt see you offering me any pretzels", so the next day at our service stop, i grabbed a bag and offered him so "pretzels..." But the following night when i was drunk i said that i wanted to tear his clothes off like the girls the night before... pretty embarrsing.
So my first real day in Venice i bought a cool sweatshirt right when we got off the boat. Piazza san marco was flooded so the polizia were directing traffic as people walked along on planks.. rule number 1: dont piss of the italian police!! the police were screaming "andiamo!! andiamo!" so i screamed andiamo... big mistake... the officer turned around and blew a whistle in my face and said "signora!! silencia!!!"..... scary...
Rule number 2 in piazza san marco: dont bring any carbohydrates into the plaza. I was attacked by pigeons and my friends looked on and screamed "DROP THE FOOOD NATALIE!!! DROP THE FOOD!!" The pigeons swarmed me and there were tons on my head, on my arms, and every free space of body i had... this is no exaggeration, i have pictures.
most of the tour mates thought venice was a dump, but i highly enjoyed the city. its been my favorite stop on the tour so far. I decided to to see venice by just getting lost in the city. its not that hard to do considering its a city with a bunch of alley ways, shops, canals and dead ends. after walking around i decided to stop and write some post cards home when out of nowhere i ran into my two best aussie mates eddie and nathaniel. it was totally random! the boys seem to like taking pictures of them kissing me on the cheek, so we have a cute one somewhere in the middle of venice.
after that i traveled to the realto bridge and took some really great photos. later that evening i went on a 30 minute gondola ride... i really enjoyed it. i didnt think the water smelled that bad, but the gondola drivers arent very personable.
as for today, i was in rome all day long. they were having some sort of strike (what else is new in italy, a strike every day).. i guess the italian army was protesting the war in iraq, but the army guys were hot in their little blue uniforms.
italian drivers are crazy in rome! everyone practicially drives a motorbike and the entire city smells like exhaust, i seriously thought i was going to get carbon monoxide poisoning walking down the street. the street signs mean nothing, there are no lines dividing lanes and pedestrians bewary!! i must have walked a zillion miles today cause of this damn strike. i took a colosseum tour, walked to the vatican, saw the sisteen chapel, went to st. peters basilla, prayed, bought a cross, picked up some blessed holy water and actually ran into eddie and nathaniel again. after that i took the metro, accidently got on the express, went a few extra stops and had to get back on and go the other direction... (this is reminding me too much of germany).. oh and i also went to the trevi fountain and since my camera battery was dead i had this vendor take my photo and it actually turned out really great.... i will have scan it into a computer to share it.
tomorrow its off to florence... i mailed postcards to a few people on th 4th, apparently it takes a few weeks, so you all know who you are, youll probably get it when im already back. i hope i dont get the bubonic plague that everyone on the bus has, i feel it coming on, but ive been taking my vitamins and tryng to stay away from all forms of smoke even though everyone smokes in italy. ok, time to strip my bed sheets, were having a toga party tonight.
ciao ragazzi!
So my first real day in Venice i bought a cool sweatshirt right when we got off the boat. Piazza san marco was flooded so the polizia were directing traffic as people walked along on planks.. rule number 1: dont piss of the italian police!! the police were screaming "andiamo!! andiamo!" so i screamed andiamo... big mistake... the officer turned around and blew a whistle in my face and said "signora!! silencia!!!"..... scary...
Rule number 2 in piazza san marco: dont bring any carbohydrates into the plaza. I was attacked by pigeons and my friends looked on and screamed "DROP THE FOOOD NATALIE!!! DROP THE FOOD!!" The pigeons swarmed me and there were tons on my head, on my arms, and every free space of body i had... this is no exaggeration, i have pictures.
most of the tour mates thought venice was a dump, but i highly enjoyed the city. its been my favorite stop on the tour so far. I decided to to see venice by just getting lost in the city. its not that hard to do considering its a city with a bunch of alley ways, shops, canals and dead ends. after walking around i decided to stop and write some post cards home when out of nowhere i ran into my two best aussie mates eddie and nathaniel. it was totally random! the boys seem to like taking pictures of them kissing me on the cheek, so we have a cute one somewhere in the middle of venice.
after that i traveled to the realto bridge and took some really great photos. later that evening i went on a 30 minute gondola ride... i really enjoyed it. i didnt think the water smelled that bad, but the gondola drivers arent very personable.
as for today, i was in rome all day long. they were having some sort of strike (what else is new in italy, a strike every day).. i guess the italian army was protesting the war in iraq, but the army guys were hot in their little blue uniforms.
italian drivers are crazy in rome! everyone practicially drives a motorbike and the entire city smells like exhaust, i seriously thought i was going to get carbon monoxide poisoning walking down the street. the street signs mean nothing, there are no lines dividing lanes and pedestrians bewary!! i must have walked a zillion miles today cause of this damn strike. i took a colosseum tour, walked to the vatican, saw the sisteen chapel, went to st. peters basilla, prayed, bought a cross, picked up some blessed holy water and actually ran into eddie and nathaniel again. after that i took the metro, accidently got on the express, went a few extra stops and had to get back on and go the other direction... (this is reminding me too much of germany).. oh and i also went to the trevi fountain and since my camera battery was dead i had this vendor take my photo and it actually turned out really great.... i will have scan it into a computer to share it.
tomorrow its off to florence... i mailed postcards to a few people on th 4th, apparently it takes a few weeks, so you all know who you are, youll probably get it when im already back. i hope i dont get the bubonic plague that everyone on the bus has, i feel it coming on, but ive been taking my vitamins and tryng to stay away from all forms of smoke even though everyone smokes in italy. ok, time to strip my bed sheets, were having a toga party tonight.
ciao ragazzi!
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