Venice has been known as the "La Dominante", "Serenissima", "Queen of the Adriatic", "City of Water", "City of Masks", "City of Bridges", "The Floating City", and "City of Canals"
This is what wikipedia says about names of Venice. I like 'Queen of the Adriatic' the most, as this city has the real power to be named so: long-time history, enormously beautiful architecture, small bridges and water.. If you follow my blog for a long time you might have noticed that I love water and it doesn't matter weather it is ocean, sea, river or even a small lake. For me the city near the water makes significance, it gives me energy. The city on the water is something unbelievable but it exists and this is Venice that each should visit once.
I persuaded Mikko to go on a ride on gondola, although it is really expensive, it costed 80 euros for 30 minutes and there were two of us in the boat. You can go with other people for the same price and it will be much cheaper. Anyway, despite the price it is worth doing. We took gondola at Doge's Palace and had an amazing gondolier who was telling us some interesting stories about the city. After the gondola trip we decided to take pizza and eat on the bridge, kind a romantic. We found a spot where were no so many people. It was funny when we left there was a sign: Don't sit on the bridge! It was so small on the small gate inside, that we noticed it when we were leaving...
After a good Venetian pizza we were walking around the city and taking pictures. We were specially looking for places without crowds and that is the time when you can really see Venetian beauty.
On out trip to Venice we stayed with our friends and they brought us to bacaris. Bacari is an old Venetian bar where you can try Venetian snacks and very good and cheap wine. Frankly speaking, very few of these bars are left and most of them are touristic with high prices. We had Venetian friend with us who was taking care of business (talking Ventian slang) so we didn't pay that much... The food was really yummy!
When in bacari we met a young couple from Miami, they were making their travel around Europe. It was really crazy night. They had both birthdays the other day. Their friends and family were calling them in skype and our company of 6 people was really crazy shouting and laughing congratulating everyone from skype call. Venice was really beautiful but it was speacially beautiful in the evening when we were coming from bacari to another bacari... Venice was deserted...
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