Venice!

 Venice in the drizzle

 Italian design

 Design for the stomach: my ikan todak

I want to live in this city: artists everywhere

theatres, music, galleries...

Alhamdulillah despite such an inconvenient delay at Manchester, we arrived safely in Venice.Some tips for those who wish to travel this way:

1.If you were travelling on a budget flight, give some allowance for delays, etc.We were all nicely buckled up when the pilot said there was some technical prob.They tried to fix it (phuiyoo..ingat ni mesin rumput ke? Fix then start mowing? Ni nyawa, tau?)

For those who are tight with time: don't travel on low-cost flights.

I was so relieved when we were given a different flight.Even then, it didn't take off till 30 mins later.

But we made nice friends onboard..some people booked to travel on a cruise from Venice to Athens to Istanbul etc.

2. At Marco Polo airport, we took the water taxi to Saint Marco..the cheap one will take about 1.5 hours as it makes stops.Buy your tickets at the counter.To Saint Marco it'd be about 15 euros one way.If you take water taxi straight to Saint Marco it would be around 90 euros.But you'd get there in 20 mins.

Nak termuntah travel by water nih.But once at the Saint Marco area..ooo la la...all your low energy picks up again.This place is a beauty.Wait till you get to your hotel..ours has a nice Italian garden..and the best part is, you WALK in this city as you window shop through narrow alleys.Oh..I wish I had booked more days here.It's so...Italian.I think of Ben Jonson's plays as I breathe Venice.It's Jonson's immoral city in the 16th century.I have yet to find out but my hotel people are so nice..service at this hotel pun bagusss...(free internet for 3 days! 24/7)

Will update more as I discover Venice.

Post-dinner: met honeymooners from all over (the couple next to our dinner table were dentists from Melbourne on their honeymoon.Wife dia cantik and peramah..we were talking about our travels, then nearby couples..ada yang celebrating their anniversaries pun joined our 'loud' conversations.Haha.The far end couple from Perth menyampuk as dentist lady and I comparing notes on UK and Ozzie unis.Dentist tu pun ada PhD from an Oz uni.Nak tergelak pulak..macam balik kampong la pulak..geng2 Oz berkumpul kat Venice!)

I love this city..full of life and artistic expressions.