Venice day 1
Waking up earlyish on Friday due to my hotness and not being able to sleep, much to Frans discomfort the excitement was soon kicking in. It’s about 9 am but we are still in bed… No need to wake up. It’s such a great feeling knowing everyone else is in work haha.
Fran still had some packing to do and I needed travel insurance ! So I jumped on the laptop and managed to sort it within 5 mins 
whoo
Breakfast time, and it was pancake time, I only had one though but Fran had about 4 lol
Last minute preparations before we leave and stuffing everything into the suitcase ready for the drive down to Gatwick. Frans stuff all rolled up and squeezed between my semi nearly folded clothes.
Right, into the car we go, frans dad kindly offering to take us. Not much traffic so we were ok, until he missed the Gatwick turn off. We had to take a detour but it was all good in the end, we made it to the north terminal.
As soon as we got inside it was straight over British airways self service kiosks where we could print our boarding passes. Job done in less than 2 minutes. We then checked in our bag and strolled straight through security.
Still hungry we headed towards WHsmith for snacks but we had to stop because there was a ferrari and Audi r8 parked on the stand to win one of the super-cars on offer. What a perfect time to pull out elephant for a quick pic on the ferrari. Was tempted to buy a raffle ticket but it’s too much money.
Now we are waiting for our Gate number number to be called / shown on screen. Then I’ll update this as today’s progresses.
Ok. We are on the plane! There was a delay because the security doors at boarding kept closing but it’s fine, we are on!
We also took a trip to boots to get some luxury eye damagers. 24 for £10 not bad lol.
Landed safe in Venice! There was a bloke sick on the plane was just wrong :s but we kept ourselves busy by playing monopoly (I lost) and a 3d golf game
The bloke next to us was sleeping the whole way so when it was safe I manged to get a picture of elephant looking out of the window.
After getting off the plane and getting the bag we had to source a vaperetto ticket for the water taxi across to the main island. It’s currently raining and we are under shelter in the boat stop.
The boat felt like it took ages, Stopping at 3 other stops before eventually pulling into st marco.
We got off the boat at about 9:00 ish and I already knew the way into the square over a few bridges.
It wasn’t raining but there was some surface water and the main walkways were pathed With raised platforms for us to walk on. As we went passed the main tower on the ground there was a mass puddle which we both splashed in and got slightly soaked lol.
I got the iPhone out loaded google maps and made sure 3g and data roaming was on. The GPS position was slightly out but I set the route to our hotel and we entered some back streets just off the main square. So far so good…
After battling the map and getting hopelessly lost it now being 9:45 despite our hotel only being 2 mins walk from the square I was eventually persuaded to seek help frm a waiter at a restaurant we saw earlier in the night.
He didn’t really know but luckily enough his mate did and we were finally at the hotel just one minute after my 10:00 predicted time. We entered the hotel and it was lovely. We checked in and the concierge took our bag and we walked out of the main complex to another building where our room was, it was on the second floor, room 612.
We had to take the elevator but once the doors opened there was our room directly opposite. We were shown into our room and then left to have a look round on our own.
There was champagne on the bed waiting for us but we were so hungry we just wanted to get out of the room we spent ages looking for lol.
As we were just getting settled we heard sirens like in the blitz! This was a flood warning noise and even tho it had been raining we saw no signs of this… Yet
Ok, off to dinner the logical place to have dinner was the restaurant where the waiter helped us about 15 mins ago, so we went back there.
The waiter was shocked and though we were lost again but we explained we just wanted to eat after a long journey so we sat down in the empty restaurant and had the place to our selves.
We were served straight away which was pretty good and seeing as we were the only ones in there i should of hoped so to we shared a ham pizza and chips and literally was in and out within 30 mins, we needed sleep!
Walking out from the resteraunt and turning the corner to be met by 3 Italians making a fuss over something… it turned out to be that the route we needed to take was slightly flooded in about 5 inches of water where the canal had come up and over the bank… joy!
I walked through and got slightly wet feet but where was Fran? Round the corne screaming lol, so with the Italian folk cheering me on i done the hiroic thing and went back for the lady in distress, she climbed aboard and i walked back through the flooded path with a lot of praise from the locals.
Finally back to the hotel and time to check out the room, we collapsed in bed.
Good night.
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