Venice, we meet again

after arriving from Milan, tita amaya and her friends decided it was best to have dinner in Venice. after checking in a hotel, we headed straight back to the train station and got tickets to Venezia S. Lucia. It was already getting dark. everyone kept saying venice is much nicer in the evening but to me, it's better at sunset. at night, it's too dark and so the details of the amazing architecture is hardly seen. although, seeing piazza san marco all lit up is also a sight to see. i could imagine New year's there as it is in the top 5 european cities to spend New Year's! i kept wishing i bought an SLR before i left the philippines because my crappy camera couldnt take a good shot of the place at night.

we almost missed the train. we actually were in a wrong train going back to padova. but thankfully, no one checked the tickets. i bought tickets for 10:20 pm but i did not take into consideration that i was with older folk and i still took them walking which got them tired and so the walk took so much longer. when we came out of the vaporetto, we had to run to catch the 11:30 train. all worked out in the end.

the next day, i showed them around Padova. nothing much to see but the Prato, Basilica of St. Anthony and shopping. had dinner and found a good place for pizza.

after a day in my city, Venice again. i have been to venice 3 times in my whole stay in italy and i havent even been here a month. this time, we skipped the walking part. we took the vaporetto to and from piazza san marco. i was only with tita amaya and tita beth now. the other two left for milan the day before. as we passed the expensive stores, my two companions could not resist going into them...Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Hermes, etc...i was reminded of that scene in pretty woman when julia roberts was denied service in one of the stores in rodeo drive. i did not have money to spend in those stores! good thing i was with people who could actually spend money in these stores...

then we had lunch, searched for the linen shirts we saw the other night when the store was closed and then headed back. rushing to get them two in the train to Milan.

that ends my first visitors' trip with me

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