Venice - Day One

This morning we flew from Prague to Venice aboard SkyEurope. Luckily we managed to fly with them before they go bankrupt sometime in the near future (as predicted). Our flight got us at the Trevisio airport around 11:30AM and on a bus and on our way to Venice. Arrival in Venice was about an hour later, and due to GPS issues (i.e., couldn't find the street we were looking for) we managed to get to our hotel in about a half hour.

The hotel Al Campaniel is very nice. It is a little place about 10 meters from the canal and is within a 15 minute walk from Piazza San Marco. It has our first phone of the trip, but I am not sure if we will even use it. It also has an air conditioner and about 20 power outlets, which are a hot commodity in Europe apparently. At 70-80E a night, you cannot go wrong in Venice!

Today we bought the museum pass and visited the Doges Palace which was very impressive (very artsy and had a cool weapons section) and a museum called Caorrer that while was OK but was not particularly interesting for my tastes. The Piazza is amazing with huge buildings and lots of interesting architecture. I do notice that it kind of smells like poop water, but I think that really beats Prague's smell of sausages which kind of makes my stomach do flips after the food poisoning incident. Walking to the train to get to the airport this morning nearly had me gagging as we walked by the 24 hour sausage dealers on the Prague strip.

After that we went and had dinner at a touristy little cafe that had fizzy young red wine, alright food and a Billy Bob singing fish on the wall. The fish really made us feel like we were getting the real Venice experience.

Tomorrow we might go for a boat ride, go up the bell tower and do other things that will undoubtedly cost us way too much money.