Venice.. The Floating City

12th july 08

It was 6am and our train reached venice.. From the train itself one can see water n water everywhere..as the train passed a bridge.. Awesome view of sunshine was visible through the big windows of the train.. :-)

As soon as you come out of the station.. you can see the roads.. water roads.. i mean ;-)
There is public transport available for traveling in the city, ACTV is the service provider..
But the charge for using that transport was a bit thats what i feel..
They charged 14 Euors for 12 hour boat journey.. (no matter how many times and how many stops you change in between) Anyways.. it was fun to see the whole transport system coming to water..

The craziest thing being.. they have Taxi also.... certainly running in water... i.e. fast water boats named as taxi.. Too good.. Water going in all the streets.. Just imagined that like we think of going on our feet, or taking some taxi or personal vehicle... These people have their own private boats... which they need to board in as soon as they want to come out of their house..Amazing!!

Then we went to St Marco Polo Church/Square, and visited that famous church.. It was nice.. But more interesting were the pigeons just outside the church.. hundreds of them.. and as soon as you offer them any food stuff..they will just fly to your body to have a bite of it!! Enjoyed a lot feeding some of those pigeons.. with some left over chips which my friend had with him!

After some time headed for Glass factory on Murano Island , named Glass Museum (Museo del Vetro) , Venice is famous not just for being a floating city, but also for its glass work.. and visiting this glass factory was really interesting.. to see how they just molded old glass pieces into fine glass work (in the form of say boats, horses and other such showpiece which we normally places in our houses)

At the end of the day, Lido Beach was where we relaxed.. HUGE beach it was.. n Lots of people also there.. ;-) Didn't get chance to take a bath in morning, so just jumped into the see water straight away...
And finally headed for Treviso airport, venice.. to take flight for Paris.. dream city.. :-)