venice, day 4

a view of the church san marco in the main piazza


today was our last day in venice. we are to catch a plane at 930pm, so we have a lot of time to kill. we didnt want to sit at the airport for a really long time like we did at stansted (from london to italy), so we left our bags with the hotel, and just tried to kill the time however we could. we started by going to the arsenale for the biennale. that was just a bunch of absurd and crappy contemporary art. i didnt like any of it, and neither did paola (to be sure, i am more open to contemporary art than paola is, so if i didnt like it, it is a certainty that she wouldnt). then we just walked around to waste the time.

i think that too long in anyone place is not a good thing. especially when we are on a tour like this, a city seems to get a little boring after too long. this certainly happened with venice, with the whole city looking the same everywhere we went, and all the people crowding the streets. paola made the observation that the city is just too small to comfortably accomodate all of the tourists that come in, thus making everything a jam of people. in any case, we are happy to be going to rome now. we’ll see what that does for us, especially since we will be there for seven days (before going to greece). paola says that rome is big enough to not get bored in, and since we are going to be staying in someone’s apartment (a previous neighbor of paola’s dad), it will seem more like home, and more bearable.

right now we are sitting in the airport, waiting for them to allow us to check in.
i hate airports.