Paris —> Venice 🇮🇹

We had a good sleep in today before checking out of our hotel and made our way to the airport on route to Italy!

We had a slight delay to our flight but we ended up scoring exit row seats and so had plenty of legroom for our short 2 hours to Venice on our flight with Air France. We said Au revoir to France and landed in Venice at around 6pm.

We then caught the bus to the city centre and crossed a few canals on foot to make it to our Airbnb. After all the issues with their flights, Alex and Nicky wouldn’t be getting in until midnight so we did some shopping and decided to go out for dinner - we had some incredible and huge pizzas whilst Daniel got to practice his Italian!

We then for a walk past the Rialto Bridge and got some late night gelato - pistachio and white chocolate for Gab and sesame/fig for Daniel. It was really busy around Venice even late at night as there is a yearly festival on the third week in July which we just happened to be there for (we had no idea about this until we heard fireworks going on later when we were back at the Airbnb). It was still very warm and we enjoyed walking around and Gab seeing her first glimpse of Venice! It took us a bit longer to walk back to the Airbnb as we got a little lost navigating the small streets and bridges in the dark (which is clearly not uncommon as most tourists had Google maps open while walking around!)

We went back to the Airbnb and crashed. Nicky and Alex didn’t get in until around 1am - we are so glad they made it to Venice and we went to bed looking forward to a day of exploring the next day!Read more