Italy - Venice

Venice was our last stop in Italy.. The weather was beautiful.. It was cool arriving on train.. they have dug out enough land for the train to make it all the way to the main island. I'm running out of blogging time.. so I'm going to squeeze many pics in this post.

Here's the view from our hostel.. The train station was right across the canal, but despite this it took us almost an hour to find our hostel.













Bobo insisted that I take a picture of this laundry.







These are the boat buses that ferry most people around the major canals and to the surrounding islands and mainland. Its pretty easy to figure out which bus to take.. and if ure a "dumb tourist" its easy to ride for free.. ;)











Here we are trying to find a certain square area where they supposedly had cheapER restaurants.. :)



















Bobo started drooling when he saw this boat..









Compare the next two pictures.. one is a real picture.. the other is a painting done in the 1700's that I saw in the Louvre.











This boat was used to pound in the wooden poles along the canal.





I thought this pic was cool



We went island hopping at night.. Venice is pretty quiet at night.. there isnt much nightlife.





This guy was squid hunting.. It was quite interesting.. Bobo and I watched him and a lady walking up and down the canal at night. The lady had a stick with a wire.. and the guy followed behind with a net. It turned out the the woman had a female squid dangling on the wire.. Apparently the female squid gives out distress signals and attracts male squids.. and as soon as the male squid arrives the guy scoops it out with his net. We watched them catch one.. it was fascinating.



Bobo wanted to take an artsy picture with this bench.. dont ask why. I kept thinking.. "man i dont want another fine!" hehe.











back from the dead!



A lot of fancy restaurants had these little orchestras.



I think he was trying to take a picture of the moon.