Venice

After a quick visit to our lovely friends and families we took a plane to Milan and made our way to Venice on the train. We stayed in a caravan park about 20 minutes outside of Venice, which was by far the cheapest place we could find as we left it to the last minute to book. We actually thought this was the best way to do it, staying outside of Venice and the crowds. It was more relaxing and allowed you to get completely lost in Venice and easily find your way home.

Grand canal

When we looked up the top free things to do in Venice, getting lost was the top. This was easily accomplished with all the narrow streets, alleyways and canals. The weather was beautiful, almost 30 degrees throughout both days, which was a welcome change to English and Estonian weather. It was also good practice for when we head to Indonesia on Tuesday as all we did in Venice was walk all day. We found our way to St. Marks square although heaving with tourists the architecture was impressive. Whilst being completely lost we stumbled upon the self proclaimed 'most beautiful book shop in the world' and whilst looking around we had to agree. Venice was completely unique and beautiful although we couldn't imagine visiting in the summer, it was busy enough in May!

After we spent two months visiting family around Europe, Venice finally felt like the start of our travels as for the first time there was nobody to meet us or to stay with. It was just us, it was a mixture of relief and excitement (no offence family). Next stop Indonesia.

Crowded st Marcs square