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Day 15: Venice walking tour this morning from 10am. My first impression: it stunk like sewerage! Buildings were jagged but quaint and just alot alot of bridges connecting the 120 islands making up Venice. St Mark's Piazza and the cathedral was pretty beautiful. Seemed like everyone were tourists and there were alot of them!
Saw a lacework demonstration and got a wedding garter there for Jinah...got lost in the winding alleyways of Venezia filled with murano glass shops, Venetian masks and other usual shops. It felt like an ancient medieval town with new shops more than a city as the buildings were short and old. We decided against the gondola ride which was €20 for 30 minutes (of going down dirty canals in my opinion) but did check out the Rialto Bridge and took a vapoletto (i.e. ferry) ride back down to Piazzale Roma where we transfer for the bus back to Camp Alba D'oro.
We accidentally found a great place for lunch "da Mamo Trattoria Pizzeria", which was recommended by tripadvisor and he local food guides. Andie had a Venetian style squid ink tagliatelle and I had the day's special of gnocchi with asparagus and scampi in a seafood bisque cream sauce. Extremely delicious!!!
Venice was truly a city built in water-- we saw an ambulance speedboat speeding through the grand canal on our vapoletto ride!
After getting back to camp I lazed by the pool in the warm afternoon sun before dinner was served at 8pm. Again, dinner was scrumptious with a charcuterie plate and tomatoes and bocconcini cheese for first course and penne bolognese and gnocchi in a white wine cream sauce for second course. Delicious!
Toga Party tonight!!! We got bedsheets to drape ourselves with. It's already starting to look like a hell of a fun night.
James got quite tipsy and made hilarious comments all night... "twirl Anjuli, Twirl..!!"..."oh just push her into a canal" (re. to Luke's on & off again gf)..."she doesn't deserve him, just get in there and elbow her away" (re. Litta dancing with Luke). there was a bit of a drool fest going on when Luke showed up in his toga. To put it in Andie's words...he was the perfect replica of a statue of a Roman God (minus the leaf :).
Most of the others got trashed but we were just dancing and taking it easy on the drinks. It was very fun night overall!!!
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