Venezia -- primo
mon. march 13
we arrived at arround 10:30, the sun was out and i couldn't believe my eyes. venice was beautiful. i took my first boat ride ever in venice. it was a taxi boat that picked us up at the train station and took us to the island where our hotel was located, Lido. you see, the area of venice could be divided into three parts: main land, the old city of Venice (all located on the main island), and the many islands surrounding venice proper. we stayed in one of the surrounding islands. Once we were all checked in, we took a boat to venice proper. there, all we did was explore. the island is relatively small so one can just start walking and if you happen to get lost, its really easy to find where you are. that's exactly what charlie, collin and i did. during our exploration we stumbled upon several cool things - the church of the miracle, scarpa's entry to the architecture school, and scarpa's bridge to the querini stampali foundation. finally at around the time for sunset we made our way to see St Mark's Cathedral. what a beautiful space... we were there for a while, and of course we played with the pigeons, there is so many of them! they'll just follow you for no reason. instead of them being afraid of you, you are afraid of them... haha! maybe not so much, but it is intimidating when you see hundreds of pigeons flying towards you. anyways, at the end of the night we just headed back to our hotel and took some night shots on the way. another great day...
*robot collin fighting the pigeons
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