I kinda took a little nap in between my journal
entry and woke up at about 1:30am with the light on and all my clothes
still on so I promptly fell asleep instead. Back to the Aussies,
after hanging out with them until about 11:00pm I decided to got get some
food before I went and caught up with the rest of the people in the dorm.
I managed to find a pizza place on the main street that was open.
Had a great vegetarian pizza and a few beers there before I staggered down
to the Snake Bar. When I got there, no one was there from the hostel,
but I couldn't walk into the place without having a beer and checking out
the snakes. After finishing the beer I bailed down to the Babylon
bar and saw this Norwegian there hanging out that I had seen hanging out
in the hostel before. I walked over and started talking to the guys,
pretty soon it was me, the Norwegian and a few of his friends, a French
Canadian and a Mexican. The French Canadian was already there and
the Mexican showed up a little later. We sat there and drank beer
and shots of Slivovice for most of the evening. Paul and the rest
of the guys from the dorm and people from the other dorm showed up eventually,
including Jon and Will, two very silly English guys from my dorm.
The English guys were relaying a story to me about being randomly wrestled
as well, they were way hip.
Anyway, I was locked in this marathon discussion with the Norwegian,
Mexican and French Canadian and didn't quite make it over to the rest of
the group. It was pretty funny, the Mexican basically sat down and
just started tearing into people from the States. After he calmed
down he realized I wasn't some punk, so that was pretty cool. He
was from Cancun and was really sick of seeing 16 year olds getting silly
in his home town. After quite a while Paul came back over and told
me they were moving back the Snake Bar. Eventually I decided
to head over to the Snake Bar as well, thinking that I'd leave my new friends
there at the Babylon, but that didn't actually happen. When I was
in the Snake Bar getting a beer my buddies from the Babylon came in and
once again I was locked in the conversation with these guys. Once,
I looked up, somehow, and noticed that Paul and crew had left, fuck.
Oh well, there were pretty cool people. Somehow we made it back the Norwegian's hostel where he was working, drank some more and eventually
made our way outside. Actually the French Canadian and I made it
outside while the Norwegian fell asleep because he had to get back early
for work.
Anyway, some fucking how it was 8:00am and I decided to boogie back
the hostel for breakfast. When I got back I actually watched
Haunza work, it was incredible. While I was sitting there eating
breakfast the Aussies were harassing me about not making it back to the
hostel for my free night. Sometime thereafter one of the Aussies
reminded me it was Tuesday and not Monday and I boogied back up to the
dorm to pack my stuff so I could leave that day and also check out my 10:00am.
I was out of that hostel and on a bus for Praha by 12:30pm and in Praha
by about 3:30pm. The Aussies, Gus and Rowan and I eventually made
our way to the Travelers' which happened to be around the corner from where
Sanna, Lien, Kosaku and I stayed. That evening we found another authentic
Czech place to eat and then headed over to the hostel bar for a few drinks.
I was really tired, and by that time I had been up for about 35 hours.
At about 12:30am I bailed out of the bar to get some sleep.
I got up the next morning at about 7:00am and headed down to the train
station to buy a ticket to Berlin. I'm really glad I did because
I found out the Czech had changed the time the train left and it was much
earlier. I boogied back to the hostel, got my stuff and basically
walked to the train station again. Unfortunately I missed seeing
my Aussies buddies in the morning. The train ride was nice and quite.
I had two seats to myself and no one bothered me. When I made it
to Berlin I called the hostel to make a reservation and made my way back
down there via bus 146. That night I hung out with this guy named
Joey from Atlanta, Georgia. He was a pretty cool guy, but didn't
know Ivan or Susan. He had also heard of the Northside Tavern for
quite some time. Since I had been there before I gave him some details
about the place. Anyway, we got some food and beer and hung out until
about midnight when we made it back to the dorm and pretty much passed
out.
The next day I helped my buddies at the Internet Cafe across the way
for a few hours to troubleshoot their internet access problems. It
was pretty cool because they weren't fluent in English, but we managed
to get it working! They were amazed I also needed to bail right after
so I could catch my flight. Getting to Tegel airport was pretty easy.
I resolved that I would NOT every fly Alpi Eagle again. They are
a sheer nightmare with trying to locate their desk, to checking in
and to getting through their security checkpoint. The actual
flight was nice, but by the time I made it to the plane I just wanted to
be left alone and get to Venezia.
When I got to Venezia later that afternoon I was surprised how humid
it was. I took a bus to Mestre, the train station and then took another
bus to Fusina where I got into a cabin. This is actually a campground,
just like Michael told me. I can see why he baked out here for a
few days. It's a pretty cool place. Last evening I hooked up
with my cabin mate, "J", and we went and had some dinner at the local restaurant.
People out here at Camp Fusina were getting absolutely silly at the camp
bar last night. I was here in the cabin last night and I could definitely
hear people getting majorly silly. About 11:00pm I decided to take
a little nap and woke-up at about 1:30am. I think I'm still recovering
from my marathon discussion session with the blokes from my last evening
in Cesky Krumlov.
This morning I managed to get out of bed sometime before 9:00am.
"J" and I decided to head over into Venezia and see the town and take some
pictures. After a few minutes of attempting to talk to the lady at
reception in Spanish I finally got a water taxi ticket from Fusina to Venezia.
We had a good time in Venezia, "J" is a picture taking fool, snapping well
over 100 shots over the course of the day. Venezia is a really nice
city, silly with canals and little bridges. There are very many silly
little shops and other things all over Venezia, it's not right. The
canals are also very cool, you see a lot of boats and gondolas all over
the place. "J" and I must have walked about 10km today, most of it
trying to get back to station Fusina after following the San Marco tourist
trap train which definitely was a piece of crap. We must have walked
through about a million shops trying to find our way to the station.
When we finally made it back to Fusina Station we got to hang out in the
shade for a little while before getting on the boat.
After making it back to camp we messed around with our digital camera's
and them made our way out to the cafe for some food. While we were
eating we met some very cool Aussie ladies sitting at the table next to
us. We talked with them for a while and discovered they were in the
cabin next to us, really funny. Anyway, after dinner I bought a bottle
of wine and a plastic cup and came back here for the evening to catch up
my journal and drink a very nice red wine, merlot, which I've nearly finished.
Tonight I'm going to finish packing so I'm up and gone to make my way to
Certaldo!