Venice was weird. There are a lot of tourists. Like, a lot. People said to go there, so I did but there were lots and lots of tourists. I managed to find some places that didn't have as many, but those were mostly parks or streets with almost no people. Or the market.
As per my uze, I spent a lot of the time walking around. Since my hostel was pretty expensive, I didn't really want to spend money on things. Especially churches, since I've seen a solid gajillion and I think it's kind of weird for churches to charge an entrance fee anyway. I'm pretty sure that the streets of Venice are based on a tree-like structure, thus getting rid of any superfluous routes for getting from one point to another. Which is to say that I did a lot of exploring, reaching a dead end after a long time, and having to go back the way I came. Also, it's basically impossible to tell if the narrow street you are one is going to be a dead end or if it's vital to get to the main roads.
I went on a free tour of venice which was pretty nice. I met another person from Minnesota! Also our tour guide was very sweet and it was her first tour and we got rained on really hard but she still persisted, which was awesome.
In this very rainstorm, I managed to hurt my phone. It worked fine as far as getting me back to my hostel. Later, however, it stopped charging and I discovered water behind the battery, which is no good. After much sadness, I went and got a new phone so that I could have wifi and gps and stuff. The cheapest money could buy. It's pretty shitty, and for a while I didn't have an adapter for the sim card, so I couldn't call people, but at least I have a (kind of) working gps, wifi, and a camera.
I also visited the outer islands, so I got to see a bunch of glass at Merano! I saw a free demonstration of glass blowing, but it wasn't great. The guy just demonstrated some basic techniques, like blowing and pulling the molten glass, without using any colors or any of the fancy stuff. He ended up throwing away the things he made.
Oh, and by the way, you know those signs that say that you will get a massive fine if you don't have a ticket on the boat? Yeah, they're not kidding. So that sucked also. But considering the price of the tickets, I didn't actually spend SO MUCH more than I would have.
Also, still no pictures because of hassles and shit and phone and sd card dying and also I'm using my friend's computer anyway.
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