Only at Port 9!! Sheet sheet sheet
Buon giorno! (Hello in Italian)
- Date: 2015/10/1
- Port Name: Venice
- Country: Italy
- First time there?: Yes!
- What did I do?: Free day for all the CCs!! I guess the reason is because Venice is such a popular holiday destination, they would have plenty of Japanese speaking tour guides. So we just spent a really long day from morning till evening walking around the city as real tourists!
Customary canal pic ❤
Pizza lunch of course
Then of course after getting pleasantly lost in the maze of the city we came out to St. Mark’s Square! Too bad St. Mark’s Basilica was under some kinda of maintenance work. But it’s ok, maintenance of heritage sites like these are important. We weren’t on a CC tour so I’m not sure of the history behind this magnificent building, lol. What, it was a break we deserved! So we just enjoyed the Italo-Byzantine and Gothic (<- from Wikipedia) architecture and took pictures. When at a tourist site, we do as tourists do.
Up the bell tower for more views! Look at how beautiful this is. How do people live here? Do people even live here? The swarms of tourists every single day must be quite annoying.
And here’s the basilica from up top.
Gondolas by the jetty. Obachan finger spotted. The gondola drivers were funny. We saw some of them taking their lunch break and when my friend who was wearing a striped shirt similar to theirs asked for a photo, they very curtly said NO. Lol sorry not sorry.
Espresso and tiramisu break and postcard-writing.
Postcard for the family:
Postcard for le bf:
Next port: Dubrovnik!
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