a veg life

(posted by Emily) Saturday 19 July Daily Step Count: 29,572 On Saturday morning, we woke up to another great breakfast from our hotel. Having the benefit of a free meal to start the day was totally worth it to us. We checked out of our room, but had the hotel hold our backpacks so we could pick them up later, closer to our departure. We decided to head back over to San Marco Square to see what the line for the basilica looked like. The streets were packed, with lots of tour groups from the cruise ships in town for the weekend.  The line to get in to the church was still pretty long, so we opted to get on the vaporetto and head over to Lido .     Lido is another one of Venice's islands, very long and narrow. It has swimmable beaches, so the locals tend to go there on the weekend to escape. The boat trip over was easy enough, though crowded.   When we got to Lido, I was feeling a bit nauseous from the boat ride. Strange, becau...

(posted by Emily) Thursday 17 July Daily Step Count: 24,246 Our trip to Venice on Thursday was a bit later in the day, so we had a chance to sleep in and head down to Campo di Fiori for breakfast.     fruit cups We ended up walking to the train station (per normal, though I tried to convince Rick to take the bus) and we got on our train. We had heard that Italian trains are a bit unreliable, and not always very nice, but overall, our experience ws fine. There were some delays at the stops, but train was nice enough. I just wished we hadn't been put at a table of four, and that the air conditioning worked a bit better :)  walking up to the train The train passed through Florence and Bologna, and it was fun to see the Italian countryside. Eventually, we were passing over the lagoon and in to Venice.  Italian countryside--lots of sunflowers! passing over the water hello, Venice! There aren't reall...