Weekend in Venice

We visited Venice by train during the weekend. We left early on Friday morning and arrived in Venice at midday. It was funny to step outside from the railway station and see that the roads were actually all just rivers and were there usually drives cars around the city there were plenty of boats and gondolas. The taxis were taxi boats, the buses were little ships and of course the little alleys were filled with (ridiculously expensive) gondolas.

The architecture exhibition

We stayed in a little one-star-hotel, which was all right and not so expensive. It was located in a little alley but fortunately it was easy enough to find, even though Google maps said it was completely other way. It was very hot all the time so we were glad that we had an air conditioner in the room, and even though we had booked a room with shared bathroom, we had a bathroom of our own. And the price was still the same!


The first day we walked around the main island and visited some free of charge museum which had an architecture exhibition. The most interesting part of the exhibition was to visit the highest levels of the building which were under renovation. From up there we also had glimpse of the city above.

The next day we spent just walking and walking. It feels like we walked around the whole Venice. When we felt lost we just kept on walking straight on and soon we arrived at a familiar place. We had to buy a Venetian mask (at least Aino had to) and finding the "right one" took a long time.

There were maybe too much people (tourists) wandering around the city and everything seemed expensive. But the city was beautiful, unique.