The drawing room of Europe
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 2 November 2009
By: Dan Bowen
Today I’ve a bit of a hangover and a nasty cold, a potent combo. I’ll get out and have a proper look at Venezia shortly though.
I eventually met up with those Irish lads again in the Piazza San Marco. It’s a shame they are off to Vienna tonight (I gave then a few pointers of course) as they’re a good laugh.
We had a butchers round St Mark’s Basilica and as usual, very grand and impressive. The Pala d’Oro is considered an obligatory view I think but I can’t say I was overly moved by it.
The weather here is absolutely abysmal so all we were then doing was trying to find creative ways to get off the streets and out if the rain. A visit round the Puma shop (as in the sports brand, we weren’t weighing up whether to purchase a large and deadly cat or not), a gander at a very dull (but free) violin exhibition and a 2 hour squat in Burger King were the best we could muster.
An air raid style siren just went off which apparently is a flood warning. There’s some old geezer with a beard outside shepherding 2 penguins onto a gondala with a pair of hedgehogs behind them and a couple of wallabees in turn behind them. That’s not a good sign is it?
So there won’t be much I the agenda at all for tonight, just a bit of lazing round the hostel I reckon. That actually suits me perfectly at the moment. My day trip to Verona tomorrow might well be in jeopardy with all this funny weather malarkey.
We have a tie for search of the day this time round folks. Take your pick between ‘iggy pop the idiot’ and ‘man thinks that rat is dog’.
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