for a place to be much like you expected but still feel totally unbelievable is hard to come by. Venice fit this description. though I could imagine it beforehand and once i got there my ideas were not far from the truth, it still felt like something of a surreal experience to be in a city with such beatiful, old buildings sinking into the water roads.
Venice is made up of some one-hundred plus islands, comprised of narrow cobblestone streets and many a footbridge. the water buses (vaporetti), serve as a very popular and crowded way to get around.
the city is near impossible to navigate without error. for us, it was a challenge not to walk for two hours and somehow end up in the same place we started or find ourselves at a dead end. a true test of patience which i most certainly failed.
one mission in Venice was pizza.
pizza #1: french fry pizza
eat four slices of this and you will feel sick. great!
pizza #2: fungi pizza
best pizza, shit was delicious.
pizza #3: marinara pizza
make sure when you order pizza that it comes with cheese, yo.
a second mission was to find my postcard, which i bought to send to the girl i'm in love with before i actually visited the site. i thought it would not be right to ship out a picture of a place i'd never been, so a point was made to find it. check it out, no photoshop!
mission three. a lot of the time in Venice was spent at the Biennale, a huge, major, and overwhelming contemporary art exhibition that spans all over the city but is centralized in two different venues: the Giardini and the Arsenale. over 75 countries partipated this year and some countless amount of artists. this was a two-day affair for dward and i, leaving us both "arted out". there was some really good work there, which i plan to write about later, after i've digested it all some and have more time to comment on it.
for now, here are just a few pictures to give an idea of what this event is sort of like. more on this sometime later on...
a fourth and possibly most important mission was taking a water bus to the last stop, the island of Lido, to drink wine on a deserted beach and swim naked in the Adriatic sea on the last night in Venice, Italy.
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