Italy!

I've decided Italy might be one of the most amazing places in the world...it might even beat Disney World. I loooooved it sooo much.

Wednesday we left the Kolej (aka our dorm) at about 4:30AM. I found it funny as we were leaving many people were returning to the Kolej from their evening adventures. Since the night trams are limited we had to take a cab to the airport. Cabs in Prague are known to rip people off, I tried to barter with the driver but I got to frustrated and gave in to the price, oh well.

We arrived in Milan exhausted in the early afternoon with out a plan, a place to stay or any clue how to get from the airport to the actual city (about 1 hour away). Since we were so exhausted we decided to find a place to spend the night in Milan. My friend also knows someone in Milan so we were hoping to be able to get together with her. Here are some pics of our afternoon there:

Outside of the Duomo!













After one night in Milan we decided to head to Rome. We booked a hotel for one night with hotwire.com (cheaper than a hostel) and took a train down south. The hotel turned out to be a small bed and breakfast, I think they were very new and didn't really know what they were doing. It was pretty neat. There was no sign on the door or anything, just an apartment building that we couldn't get in to. We kept buzzing the buzzer but no one was answering, finally after several minutes a guy walking down the street came over and asked us what we were doing in broken english. We told him and he seemed to panic and run around to get things ready. It turned out to be really nice with only a few minor problems from them being so new and confused. When we returned that night we didn't have enough keys to get in the building (we had to go thru 5 different doors-the first one on the right). We buzzed, knocked and buzzed until we finally woke the owner up to let us know, we explained the situation and he said "Impossible!" then he looked at the keys very confused and said "hmmm, well I gave you a tv, enjoy it!". We were very confused but when we returned to our room we found a nice tv! In the morning we asked for breakfast (it said it was included online) this created a lot more confusion but we did end up getting breakfast at a cafe down the street. Since we really like it there and wanted to see more in Rome we also asked to spend another night, this time they gave us an extra key and decided they would deliver breakfast to us in the morning. It was a neat place, language barriers and all!


Here are some pictures I took on Rome!







































































Next we were off to Venice! Again we booked the hotel online using hotwire because it was cheaper than a hostel. Since we were only going to be there one day we decided to get a hotel right in Venice even though it was a probably a little bit more expensive. We just didn't know how transportation would work if we stayed outside of Venice. I think we definitely made the right choice. Our hotel ended up being about 2 minutes from the train station right on the main road. We checked in at the sister hotel which had a lobby right on the main strip, our hotel was the next building over and our entrance was down a very very tiny alley way, we were a little nervous at first but it turned out to be great. The only sketch things were the bathroom sink with the closed drain, and the temperature, it was extremely hot but we just opened the window.
Here are some pics of Venice:

Venice was by far my favorite. I would love to go back and just explore the back streets, especially in the evening when its less crowded. Everything about it was just perfectly warm and fuzzy! I dont know why my text is underlining itself and I can't seem to make it stop...