Italy II - nadhiya ada venice nadhiye!!

The next day, we had to leave for Venice, so mudhal naal night we all decided to get ready by 4:00 and leave for the airport coz we had our bus by 4:30. Since I and my pathi were the "somberi" ones, adutha naal avamana pada koodadhunu seekirama ezhundhuttom (but we still got ready only by 4:10 :D). Seri ivangalai kootitu pogalamnu roomku poi kadhavai thattina...kadhavai thirandhu "enna usha, whats the matter"-nranga!! "Hey time 4:15!!"-nu sonnapuram they realized that they had not adjusted their watch to Italian timezone :))

Oruvazhiya ellarum kilambi we took a cab to go to the busstop, and luckily 4:50 bus-la engalai ethittar andha driver. So then we set off to and reached Venice..nallavelai, there was no trumpet for an early arrival. We found the hotel and checked in by 10:00, and had the train by 11:00 to Central Venice. 1 hr-la kilambanumnu avasara avasarama kulichu saptu we were getting ready. The time was 10:45, when our friend knocked the door and said her husband had just gone in to take the shower. Kuttisathan suggested that we leave without them coz the next train was only by 1:00, and that they can join us later...ok, vera onnum panna mudiyadhunu we left.

Kittathatta odi poi train pidichappuram kuttisathana thideernu attack pantu edho oru vellai uruvam mind-la nuzhainjudhu..and started saying "It was really bad of you to leave them like that"-nu. Ennada idhu vidhyasama kural kekkudhe-nu I got demotivated, and Santa Lucia reach pannapuram, we decided to wait for them (which meant naanga 2 hrs railway station-laye irukanumnu). Serinu random-a station pakkathulaye suthitu, we went to the station by 1:15, verified the platform with the assistance counter, and stood outside that platform. Train vandhudhu, aana enga aalunga varala!! Idhu ennada vamba pochu, train pidika cash illama thavikarangalanu we panicked. Ok, call pannalamna I didn't bring my mobile..so oru Internet centre thedi pidichu, I searched for her mails to me, but unfortunately none of them had the mobile number!! Ok, hotel number kandupidichu call pannalam-nu we found the hotel number, got off the net and called the hotel up. Roomku connect pannappuram we realized they had left the room.

Andha vellai uruvathai curse pannite we decided we'll start going around because they are most probably at Central Venice by now. Oru ferry eduthu, we went to a few attractions and finally reached St. Mark's square. Venicela irukara padhi attractions indha square-ladhan iruku. Anga irangi enquiry counterla attractions pathi ellam visarichuttu main area ulla nuzhayarom.."hey usha!"-nu oru kural. Yarudanu partha, tholainju pona enga friends!! Apparently, they had arrived 30 mins after we arrived by taking connecting trains and had started going around. By now the kuttisathan had started a fight with the vellai uruvam...ofcourse, with all my support.

After this we visited the attractions from the outside - our friends had already gone into a couple of attractions by the time we came to the square - and then took a gondola ride. Seri galatta, my hubby was capsizing the boat whenever he moved, and the others were too damn scared. At one point, ATM-la poi cash withdraw pannanumnu when he tried getting off the boat, naanga almost venice thanniyoda bottom-aye parthuttom :)) Adhu enna venice-la ore bridge bridge-a iruku ella therulayum? The gondola ride took us through some streets, and all streets had atleast a couple of bridges. Ofcourse, vera eppadi avanga neighbors visit panvanga, illa kadaikellam povanga :D The pic shows George Island which is in Venice.

So that ended our venice trip, and we retired to our hotel for the night. This time we don't have to sleep less coz the train was only by 9:00 to Pisa.