Venice Trip Part 1

Oh yes, Venice, it’s definitely nothing like other fancy restaurants depict it. If I were to recreate the ambiance of Venice in a restaurant, I would make narrow alleys, smell of stagnant water, unmaintained buildings, and lots and lots of vendors selling the same thing from different kiosks. Our hotel was the sketchiest place. It’s actually quite funny, I felt so uncomfortable and thought that I would be kidnapped and that we’re just being put in a trap. So let me start with our experience with the night train, because you can’t say you’ve traveled around Europe without having ridden a night train-as I have heard somewhere.

Our Cabin

Getting on the train

Our train ride to Venice was… made bearable by the people I shared the cabin with: Lindsay, Levi, Nyghel, Megan, and Justin, then later on, we adopted Mac because the people in her cabin occupied all the space, the little space that we had. So from our hostel, all 16 of us went to the Salzburg Hauptbahnof, or the train station, at 11 at night to catch a 1A.M. train ride. We went two hours earlier because the buses end around 11 so we can get to the hauptbahnof for free and easily.

So we’re finally on the train for eight hours and trying to sleep so we can have energy going around Venice. I slept, thankfully, not in the best position, but I still got sleep. Somehow, we did a positivity circle where we all genuinely say positive things about each other, that felt great, that helped me sleep.

I woke up to the light of morning in Venice! It was beautiful, I was in such great energy when I woke up and it was only a few minutes until we had to get off the train. Then we all got off, got out of the train station, and this is what I see, I got excited!

Then comes the best part, looking for our hotel, it’s not that it was a bear looking for our hotel, it was just very very sketchy. We were not allowed to check in until 2 so we had to go around Venice with our stuff on our backs, we all decided to be in groups my group is Nyghel, Wayne, Bethany, Paul, Patric, and myself. We went around and found a market where we got Italian subs for lunch, oh and GELATO. Yes, Gelato in Italy. Just typing this makes me really hungry and crave for it. We sat on the corner of a street and observed people, then we migrated to a different side of the town where there is a great view of the Adriatic Sea, and I slept, on the street, and checked in.

On our way to the hotel

hangout near the Adriatic sea