Italy + Brussels Trip Day 3 (28 Apr 08) (Part 3)

Arriving back at Venice from Lido...

Many tourists in Venice

The bridge behind Doge's Palace

Nice weather, lamppost and island

Boys playing with pigeons

We decided to queue up to enter St Mark's Basilica as we did not have many places left to go in Venice. Unfortunately, taking photos were not allowed inside the Basilica.

One of the entrances

Gold plated ceiling?

Large number of tourists in St Mark's Square

We then headed to Ferrari Store as Kian Shing needed to buy something.

Mau and i in Ferrari Store

The exterior of the shop

Nice souvenir display at another shop

Last few photos before leaving Piazza San Marco

Love the weather when we were in Venice

Venetian masks for sale

On the water bus back to the bus station (Anthony should smile more)

On the bus back to our hostel

Regione del Veneto

We then took the bus back to our hostel in Mestre and picked up our luggage to go to Treviso. As we were carrying our backpacks and we got the 24 hr transportation ticket that includes all bus and water bus in the Venice area, we decided to take a bus to Mestre train station. I thought a certain bus takes us to Mestre train station but i was mistaken by the sign on the bus and we were heading to some unknown place. We decided to return back to the hostel area by taking the same bus on the opposite side of the road. I was quite pissed with myself for my own error.

We finally reached Mestre train station and took a short train ride to Treviso train station. As our hostel in Treviso is quite far away from the train station, we took a bus and i was standing by the side of the bus driver constantly so that he can instruct me where to get off. Taking 8 people on a trip is quite stressful if something goes wrong.

We reached our hostel without a hitch after walking along the quiet streets in Treviso. We unloaded our luggages and headed outside for dinner. My original plan was to check out Treviso but due to the unforeseen circumstances, my timing was pushed back by 1-2 hrs and we decided to give the touring of Treviso a miss.

Our nice house in Treviso

Traditional pizza making

Taking photo with the chef

Having our dinner in the hostel corridor

Enjoying the pizza, i think mine was a bit too salty though

Nice room!

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Italy + Brussels Trip Day 3 (28 Apr 08) (Part 2)

Continuing the tour of Lido...

This modern structure greeted us before we saw the beach

View of the sea from this elevated platform

Modern white structure

Group photo

Another group photo

With the dome like structures

View of the beach

Anthony taking this artistic shot

Gy and Wj in the sea

The sand is quite coarse and there were some litter

Daryl and i

Another picture

Some of the seashells Gy collected

After the short tour of Lido beach, we proceeded to have our lunch at one of the eateries that we passed by just now along the way to the beach.

The gelato is good!

We headed back to Venice by the water bus after lunch next.

On the water bus back to Venice

Caught sleeping!

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Italy + Brussels Trip Day 3 (28 Apr 08) (Part 1)

Day 3: Venice to Lido

We woke up early the next day and took the bus to Venice. We had planned to take the water bus to explore the region around Venice before heading to Treviso in the evening.

Taking the water bus

Passing by a bridge

Passing by the nice church we saw yesterday in Venice

And me

Intricately designed building

Rialto Bridge in full view

B&W photo

Metal skull outside a museum

Doge's Palace and St Mark's Campanile

Sitting on the water bus

The island opposite Venice

The colourful buildings in Venice

Buildings in the seafront

Getting further and further away from Venice

A dome like building in Lido

We alighted at Lido which is the last stop for the water bus. Lido is a 11 km long sandbar island adjacent to Venice and it is popular due to the beach there.

At a souvenir/tidbits stall

Walking to Lido Beach

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