Saturday, September 30, 2006

venezian gelati, among other things

Huzzah! We've been invited to a 'surprise' party organised by some of the management students from Bath on the 6th of Oct. Guess that's my birthday celebration sorted eh? A day early but can't complain with freebies...

Bought a cushion for my study chair at Roseby's this afternoon. I love it! I can sit for ages in front of my lappie now. Later on will have to handwash some of my more fragile clothes, and for a strange reason I'm looking forward to that chore. I guess 'cos I know at the end of it I'll have some fresh and clean clothes to wear!

Been binge eating McVities' digestive biscuits, the one covered with milk choc. They are so darn yummy I ate them for breakfast and supper, as a result been using the bathroom more often. Haha. Digestive indeed!

Enough random babbling from me. Here are Venice photos y'all!

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VENICE PHOTOS WITH MINIMAL GELATO

This is our hostel room in Venice. Which was darn cheap! For three nights each of us only had to pay a total of 45 euros each. Plus we get Internet access and free laundry service (the host helped us use the laundry machine). Venice Rooms is awesome!

AND our ensuite bathroom had a skylight yo!

The B&B sign was rather small though... That's why we got lost the night that we arrived in Venice.

Was very sunny in Venice. Taken while waiting for the free bus (yeah we kinda cheated... never validated bus tix 'cos we saw no locals doing it) from Mestre to Venice.

Piazzale di Roma, where the Mestre bus dropped us off. From here, we take the waterbus down to Rialto and St Marco.

View from the waterbus!

View from the waterbus #2!

View from the waterbus #3! Until now I don't know why the metallic purple sculpture was there, or even WHAT it is.

So then we arrived at St Mark's Square, a favourite for both tourists and pigeons alike.

And the tourists and pigeons love each other.

We were hungry so we grabbed some pizza!

You can see half of my pizza at the bottom of the pic.

Queueing up to go into St Mark's basilica. I think Yang's rather tired of churches at this point in time...

This particular basilica's famous for its mosaic-ed walls.

Pretty cool eh?

View from the basilica roof.

View from roof #2.

Artsy fartsy picture taken by Yang. I was looking at a can of detergent leaning against the window of an opposite building.

Does anyone remember how to read Roman numerals?

OMG! It's a gondola!!! And the charming elderly man's singing. He looked so cute!

One of Venice's lovely canals.

Sunset view...

Chilling out with my sweet spritz. Yang opted for bitter spritz and decided to dilute it! I tried his drink and honestly, it was superbly bitter.

On the bus to look for a dinner place. Basically the bus stopped in the middle of nowhere (some interchange I suppose?) for 10 minutes and we were just sitting in there quietly waiting for it to move again!