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So just got to Venice about an hour ago, got a room with beds for two!! Yay!! An actual reeeeal room, and had the privelige of using proper showers (if a little bug infested and outdoorsy) that worked and didnt just act like a chute of water, like a hose. So that was lovely! Havent seen any of proper Venic yet as we are on the mainland of Italy, sort of on the edge. And all we have to do tomorrow to get to "the proper bit" as Anna calls it, is get a boat directly from the campsite. Yes we are at one of those naff camping group-lets-get-smashed places again, but its less trashier than the Rome one. Were quite happy with it actually. Not seen any gondolas or punters, yet.
Anyway, when we left Firenze we headed to Modena as we couldnt afford anywhere to stay in Verona. Which is a shame, although we only wanted to see the big white statue and the cathedral, and also Juliet's house. So Modena is a little quiet town...quite quaint and it has lots of pastel coloured houses and nice little cafes although irritatingly, as we discovered one night, virtually starving for some spaghetti pomodoro, no effing restaurants!! Apparantly nobody wants to eat out, theyd rather just have coffee. Granted the cafes are nice though .The one at the end of the road liked us because we visited at least twice each day and Anna taught them what a spoon was (she needs a spoon with her spaghetti) and they were very smiley and friendly.
So we tried to appreciate Modena, then decided, actually, its a bit crap here compared to everything else as there wasnt much to do really, just a few parks here and there. But it was nice to just "be". It would've been nicer to just "be" if there had actually been any air and the sun wasn't making as sweat from every pore on our body. We tried to do some sunbathing. That lasted 20 minutes the first day. The second day we did it we got peered at by old men and then two policeman tried to explain something to us about not sunbathing tomorrow....or yesterday, because everyone else would get jealous or offended or something. We didn't really understand what they were saying as it was in Italian but we just smiled and said "yes, ok" because we were leaving the next day anyway! I think they're a bit funny about it in Italy, whipping your bikini out in the park.
So we went to get the terain today, then realised we didnt have the bit of paper on how to get to the site in Venice. Then we found out the next train to Bologna where we needed to change was in about an hour and a half, so we went back to check the net. By the time we got there it was sooooo humid we were literally soaked. Not a pretty sight!! And it just did not bode well with our hurr (hair) let me tell you! Then we went back to get some lunch and get our train. Then we got the train. Then we changed and got on the train to Venezia. Then we got on a bus. It was very, very, hot.
Tomorrow we plan to go to the good part of Venice. So till then!! Ciaociao xx Amy and Anna
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