we were at italy, venice

taking ferry from our campsite to venice city, it was very hot and alot of tourists when we alighted

when i said alot, i meant ALOT

St Marks Square

Pigeons are such pests

souvenir booths

St Marks Square

St Marks Square

St Marks Square

The Zodiac Clock - Coool

Th gondola ride. Almost couldn't make it for the ride because the mafia got involved in the gondola business and refused all tour groups from 6pm onwards. We got chased out of the gondola because it was 6.20pm... The tour manager couldn't do anything and offered to refund us the gondola money we paid her (21 euros/pax).

However, we didn't give up, we gathered a group of 6 to ride the gondola together. We asked for the price and they quoted 30 euros per pax, okay abit more expensive but we are not going to leave venice without experiencing the gondola ride!!! When our turn is coming up, they increased the price to 40 euros... We were like shit! So expensive, how??? But we pressed on because when will be the next time we visit venice again? Expensive also have to pay right? Then after queueing for 30min and finally our turn to take the ride, they increased it to 50 euros!!! All of us were so pissed off we walked away, cursing and swearing like hell.. they are really too much man! See us being tourist and wanna chop us!!!

But thank God, we found another gondola service at the other corner of the alley, and it is only 20 euros per pax!!! We hopped on the boat without asking the second time :) It's even cheaper than the price the tour manager quoted us!

The gondola seats are so beautiful

on the gondola ride

on the gondola ride

Mozart's house (if i remembered correctly, but who cares??)

We didn't have a suave italian gondola rower (the one we got chased out has a hottie), for 20 euros, the rower is a ah chek.

According to Holly's advise, she told me to take the gondola who sings, but this fellow didn't and I requested him to do so and he agreed!!! I thought I was soo so so smart but actually it's not part of his job to sing! After clarifying with Holly, the rower is only supposed to row the boat, there should be 1 more person in the boat who plays a musical instrument and sings!! What a big joke!!!

on the gondola ride

on the gondola ride

on the gondola ride

on the gondola ride

bridge of sighs

very beautiful place surrounded by rivers and rivers

the cute korean boy, hehehe I asked him to do this pose for me

retarded boy eating pizza in italy

The place we bought pizza from didn't have a dine-in area, so we settled down on the steps and these pests start to surround us. WHY?

because retarded boy was feeding them pizza crusts

welcome to the retarded club!

snacking on margarita

the ferrari store

he wanted to buy the cap, but i stopped him

In the end, he got a black polo tee and also this jacket for the swiss alps because he only brought a windbreaker for this trip. Actually he was eyeing for another black jacket but his size is currently not in stock. (heng ah!!)

boss doing shopping

beautiful evening sky

this is not an ordinary pizza

look closer

it's SPIZZICO!!! Pizza made by the pope!

Austria

Great news!! I finally break free from that killer taiwanese drama series and leading a normal life now. So I shall continue to blog on the next destination of our Europe trip holiday.

We spent half of the day doing white water rafting in the mountains of Austria, Tyrol. So we didn't have much time left to explore the rest of the city. Talking about white water rafting, it was totally awesome! And if we could turn back time, we would have gotten ourselves a waterproof camera for the trip. Because it costs 8euros to buy a photo from the photo booth!

we took the smaller boat for 8 pax, the bigger ones can take up to 12 pax

We posed for this one at the begining of the rafting. As u can see, I'm the only female in this boat so i was excused from carrying the raft and other heavy duty stuff. HAHAHAHA!!! The ah pek in blue helmet is the trainer, and he wanted us to all get into the water. All the guys do somersaults and jumped into the water but I cannot pull that stunt lah I will break my back. I slowly lower my legs down first to test water temperature and slowly jumped in. Wah lau! SUPER FREEZING COLD. It's like you will get stunned for a few seconds before you remember to move your limps to swim.

This photo was taken unknowingly at one of the rapids. Don't know what kind of camera they are using because it's so super clear that it can capture every drop of water splashed against your face. And also the trainer taught us to do some balancing tricks, like everyone standing on the edges of the raft using only our paddles to keep our balance. This is like super difficult and everyone will fall front and back. But I like the second one, whereby all of us gather at the front tip of the raft. Then we hold on to the green rope (see picture) and bend backwards as much as possible. This caused the other end of the raft to lift up like wind surfing. So cool but GW said he could make the raft capsize because he didn't used his entire body weight to bend backwards.

Frozen after rafting, and we all took a shot to warm ourselves