Not much to write about today. Andrea’s stomach took a turn for the worse this morning, so after we left our bags with the porter and checked out of Hotel Bonvecchiati, we went looking for another hotel room to use for the day (so Andrea could rest). Unfortunately the hotels we were checking either had no rooms or wanted 200+ Euro. We kept walking, seeing a bit of Venice in the process. Andrea doesn’t honestly remember much of it, as she really just wanted to find a place to sleep.
Finally we were back near Hotel Bonvecchiati (who had no available rooms), and we ended up finding a room at a 2 star hotel just around the corner. The receptionist told us it would be 140 Euro, but then offered us a 100 Euro small room with a French bed. I still don’t know what that means…seemed like a normal bed. It was a small room, but served our purposes just fine. Andrea was able to get a few hours of sleep, which helped a bit.
Afterwards we picked our bags back up and sat in Piazza San Marco for a couple hours, doing some people watching and soaking in the atmosphere. We’d really like to go back so we can actually spend more time there; Venice is a very beautiful and unique city. Plus it’s island population is decreasing by 1000 people per year, and it’s sinking…
We caught the vaporetto back to the train station, retrieved our big bags from the bag check, met Wayne and Kim, and got ready for the overnight train to Munich. Andrea was not looking forward to that (feeling sick and all)…
matt & andrea 