Rachel and Katie Do Europe 2008: Our 2nd day in Venice

This morning we woke up early to get downstairs for some breakfast that was provided by the hotel. Oh my gosh were we upset. The coffee was terrible and they only have us one roll of bread each. Not even a croissant! We ended up walking over to the market and grabbing some bananas and yogurt.

After eating some food we decided to wander the streets of Venice, and more specifically we wanted to see the neighborhood away from the tourists. However, we did check out St. Marks Square and take some pictures. After seeing the few touristy sights we let ourselves get lost among the alleys, bridges and canals. We founds some gorgeous buildings, beautiful parks and great views of islands across the water. We spent two hours just walking around in the sweltering heat and then went to the market, got lunch, read our books, napped, watched gondolas from our window and then got ready for some more exploring and dinner.

As we explored we made our way through Rialto, Piazza Roma and Academia. We ended up back in our hotel room a bit early to pack and get to bed early since we were traveling to Florence EARLY in the morning.

Sorry our time in Venice wasn't too exciting, we decided to make our time there very relaxing and refreshing so that we had tons of energy to put into Florence. However, we did manage to take tons and tons of pictures. So I'll post some of those below.

Hope you enjoy them!

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