Venice the Menace

(Hi. So we've added three posts recently: Venice (below), Zurich (below this), and Kaufbeuren (below that). We've got pictures for all three: Venice, Zurich (Karl + Swiss Alps from Train), Kaufbeuren. Thanks for reading and viewing and emailing all your comments, they are appreciated.)

Ten things of note from our first four hours in Venice:

1. Getting from the train station to our hotel didn’t work, as the water taxi indicated on the hotel website only goes half as far as said website indicates. Furthermore, the route is roundabout and pointless, a waste of six euros ($243) apiece.

2. Upon arrival to the hotel, upon the very instant that we entered, the power went out.

3. The guy working behind the desk is a total idiot, who demands that we turn the key into him every time we leave the hotel but then leaves the door locked when we try to get back in and doesn’t respond to the bell on the first three go rounds.

4. I’m always nervous about pickpockets here.

5. Venice is not warm. That happens further south, I guess/hope.

6. I couldn’t find anywhere in this huge tourist trap of a town to get wireless Internet to make a phone call for work.

7. OK, I did actually find a place and during my call some brainless and rude blonde knocked over my glass of cheap red wine onto my pants and shirt, staining both beyond repair without getting me a replacement (glass).

8. Exhausted, we went to a restaurant in our neighborhood, not caring that it was touristy until we ate some seriously mediocre food with a budget-breaking price tag.

9. None of the above is Venice’s fault. Even the wine-glass-smashing blonde was German.

10. Venice in Italian is Venezia, and we wonder what determines what European cities get spelled differently in English?

Notes from our much better next two days in Venice coming soon.

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