The Asian and European adventures of Rob : Venice!

The Rialto Bridge

Some of my famliy

More Vencie!

You could say that the Italians are a little slow, technology wise. You could say that because at our hotel in Venice they make you pay some stupid amount of money for an internet code. But they leave the staff network open, without a password or anything. The best part about it is that they don't even know. Even when there are 4 or 5 people sitting on a bench outside the office with laptops "surfing" the web and when you tell them that all of those people are using the open network they say "oh no they're paying". Only when we tell them that we were using their staff network to book their hotel on the internet they realized that people were using their internet for free.

Bella!!

Nap time !

Anyways, our hotel is actually not in Venice but across the bay from the actual city. So we had to take ferry taxis to the Islands of Venice. The first day we took the wrong one so that added an extra hour to the ride. We mostly walked around and saw the San Marco Square. Fun fact about St. Marco square--there are absolutely no benches to sit on! When you have a very tired Bella with you it's not fun at all so she ended up having a nap on some steps . The next day we took the right ferry and walked over the Rialto Bridge. From walking all over Venice I noticed that almost all of the buildings are falling apart and you would think with all the tourist money they could make the buildings look brand new. Most of the building's paint is coming off to reveal ugly concrete or stucco, and the streets motar is uneven and falling out. That is one of the mysteries of Italy I will never know.