Our cruise vacation began in Venice………..
We started by taking 11:25am Ryanair from London Stansted and arrived Venice Treviso at 2:20pm. We hopped on ATVD bus, which brought us to Venice directly. We stayed at Hotel Pantalon. It was a simple family room with a queensize bed and two single beds. We was told that Venice has 160,000 population, but mostly elder people living there because cost of living in Venice is just too expensive. It’s property price could cost as much as GBP12,000/sf. Hence, the younger generation prefer to live outside Venice and travel to work every day.
We took a gondola ride along Venice canal, which cost EUR60 for half and hour. It usually costs more than a hundred Euro for the ride. We were lucky as we were the early birds. In total, we walked more than 20 miles in 2 days. The only transport travel within Venice is boats, water taxi or gondola. Anyway, we took a bus to Metrez one day, which made me felt like going to JB from Singapore. These two places is separated by a straits and link by a bridge. We spent about 2 hours in Metrez town. It has huge shopping centres and lots of bargain (Saldi=Sales) here.
It was Hot, Hot, Hot and we had at least two ice-cream every day. Yi Hong likes the food most since he could live with just spaghetti and pizza.
I asked the kids to write something on our travel journal, and here they wrote:
Yi Xuen wrote:
It’s pretty and boat is taxi here. Venice is really hot. We saw the San Marco and it’s good. There got lots and lots of pigeon and lots of masks.
Yi Hong wrote:
quite small, lots of water, lots of sights, masks and very warm. Venice is a city! Venice has lots of people even it was small.
St. Mark’s Basilica
Amazing night view of Venice
Gondola ride in the canal
