24 May Lost in Venice?
It has been a characteristic I have become known for, getting lost, and being found. But there is one more trait that I have discovered while roaming the streets of Venice, and that trait its luck. For this, our day off, we were tasked by our instructors to “get lost” in the cities of our choosing. To see and experience everything they had to offer. For Venice, the city of water, there is no shortage of things we could do, only the limited time in which we could do them, and be truly lost. Along with three other classmates, I set out into the unfamiliar city with the hope of seeing all it had to offer, or at least everything I wanted to see. To do that, we had to get lost. Yet the tables turned here. Normally, one might assume (reasonably so) that getting lost would hamper your experience, and yet for us, it saved it. As we stumbled blindly into the city, hoping to find its wonders, we came across the Vaporetto, the Venice water bus. It took us on a round trip surrounding the city and we got to see the beautiful oceans and structures just near the city’s coast. The next thing on our agenda was to find a gondola. Once again, we tried the method of getting lost, only to see it succeed for the second time in a row. Naturally, by this point in the day, we were getting hot and tired and wanted to slow down. What better way to spend a cool off session than with a nice, all natural Gelato. We waded through the backs of city streets passing up all the fake Gelato spots (I counted at least four) until we finally found the real deal. Gelato never tasted so good.
