Friday 14 January 2011

Europe by Rail (3) - Apeman lost in Venice / Italy in pictures

 - Milan - Bologne - Parma - Vezano - Forte Dei Marmy - Pisa -  Florence - Lake Garda - Venice -
Jeremy passes on in Piazza Del Duomo 
Milan is incredible - but to summarise: beautiful city, didn't like the people, got drunk and climbed the monuments, had a fight with the hostel owner because he turned off the orange juice machine. Here are some photos:



Forte Dei Marmy: We travelled several hundred miles for the sole purpose of taking a photo in a place called 'Forte Dei Marmy' and despite missing trains, eating a shitty meal and spending a day in a dilapidated ghost town....we all agreed it was worth it:
Forte Dei 'Marmy'
'Spending up to 11 hours on a train on a diet of McDonalds milkshakes and granola bars will lead to extreme flatulence in males and aggressive response in females' - this warning should be written on the back of every inter-rail ticket.

Farting on Sophia's face (somewhere in Italy)


Friday 30th July
Venice
St. Mark's Square


Being the apoid-yahoo that he is, Jeremy gave his phone and wallet to Sophia to look after, and then got lost in the main square. We looked for him for a few minutes. Alex and Sophia discussed the many ways he could die, Sam ranted about how irresponsible he was and I looked for a nice fish restaurant, which I found. It was delicious.




St. Mark's Basilica

 On our way back to the hostel at around midnight, Sophia saw a short old woman in a red coat and started, quite literally, screaming with genuine terror and sprinting in the opposite direction. Having always been secretly terrified of Venice because of that movie 'Don't Look Now', and being a massive pussy by nature, I instinctively screamed twice as loud and followed her.





Gondolas in Venice

6 hours after we lost him, we found Jeremy at the hostel. Expecting some inspiring stories of introspective adventure, I was disappointed to hear the most exciting thing that happened was that he bought a plastic bag from a street vendor for 1 cent.






Photos from Florence and Lake Garda:


Scene from 'Don't look Now' - SPOILER - (but now you see what I mean)

Next we travelled into the austrian alps....

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