We took the night train to Venice. I got very little sleep, again, and by the end of the ride, I was very sick. We found the Gondola Minbak, another cheap Korean place to stay the night.
We tried to give sightseeing a go, but after a long boat ride in the baking sun, I was completely zapped of energy. My wife and I ended up splitting up in different directions. She went to see some of the sights with Korean ladies from the minbak, while I went back to sleep. I slept pretty much the entire afternoon and evening. We ate together, then I went back to sleep. I woke up feeling a little better, but now my wife is a tad sick. Ugh.
We walked around the ENTIRE freaking city. I’m quite sure this is actually a GIANT tourist trap built into a maze designed to suck people’s money. The buildings are crumbling into the sea, and it’s a pain in the ass just to try to get from point A to point b. I had a hard time enjoying my walk because I had to keep checking the map CONSTANTLY to keep from getting lost. Utterly impractical. Even the boats that taxi you around the city aren’t much help. You can turn corner and find a dead end, or a canal anywhere. While that might be charming at first, the lack of signs and the stress of just trying to GET SOMEWHERE is really annoying.
This is the first city on the trip that didn’t really live up to my expectations.
