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Day 29 – Zagreb

Posted on July 25, 2017

The storm, it’s coming.

A chill day today. In the morning, the others went out shopping while I caught up on yesterday’s blog post/photos and watched latest GoT episode. Then we met up for lunch at the Italian place we went to a couple days ago. I had some lasagne and chocolate mousse for dessert.

From there, we walked around the main square a while, stopped for a coffee at a cafe, before resting back at the hotel. Later in the afternoon we headed back out to go to the Zagreb Eye (observation deck) and see the panoramic views of the city from up high.

It was karaoke night, so the scenic views were accompanied by some terrible singers, but still enjoyable nonetheless. We had a drink, looked out over the city and took some photos.

A storm was rolling in though, so the others were panicking and we left soon after sunset so we could make it back to the hotel before it hit. We almost went back to that Japanese restaurant for a bit of food/dessert, but it was full, so we just called it a night, and made it back as it started raining.

Not a whole lot of excitement today, but a nice relaxing way to finish our trip and say goodbye to Zagreb. We leave for the airport tomorrow at 12pm, so we can take it easy in the morning. From there, a bit of a wait for our flight at 3-ish (which is an eight hour flight?), followed by a ten hour wait in Dubai, followed by another fourteen hour flight… feelsbadman.

Overall, not a bad holiday. In fact, I would go as far as to say it was a good holiday.

Day 14 – Venice

Posted on July 13, 2014

This is not a picture of Venice. It’s a picture of Lake-town.

Today started quite miserably and ended much the same. First, we got up early to get ready and packed for our train journey from Florence to Venice. It was an 11:30am train which takes 2 hours to get to Venice. We had planned on having half the day there to look around and settle in. Our plans were foiled.

Due to a misplacement of train tickets, we ended up having to re-purchase them and had to wait for the 2:30pm train. Three hours of boredom later (though I did get to spend some time training my Charmeleon), we got on the train for another two hours of waiting.

Finally we arrived in Venice! It was quite different from everywhere else we had been (mostly due to the water everywhere) and did remind me of Lake-town (hence the main photo). It was about 4:45pm at this point and we had to take a ferry to get to our hotel. By the time we got there it was close to 6:30pm. We decided we best go walk around a bit and get some dinner and not waste the limited time we have here.

Then it started to rain. A Mordor cloud swept over us and within minutes it was storming like crazy. Luckily we managed to duck into a restaurant before it got too bad and we got to have a nice dinner while watching the grey haze outside. The food was expensive too which didn’t help. It finally calmed down though, enough for us to walk back to our hotel room.

So that was our first day in Venice. A lot of waiting around, travelling and then watching the rain. We only have two nights here (a full day tomorrow and then the morning of the next day) before we fly to Paris. Hopefully it’s clear tomorrow and we can have a mega-day to make up for it.

If not… at least the hotel is nice.