Florence to Venice

One more day in Florence was spent wandering around the city a bit more and a great time catching up with Rose and Michael.  We considered staying another night but apparently finding a room to stay in Florence last minute is actually impossible, so on to Venice!

Outside the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella

Waiting for the train

A two hour train ride later and we arrived at the Santa Lucia train station, just in time for a pretty beautiful sunset over Venice.

We decided to stay in a camping site just outside of Venice because of cost, but it's turned out to be a really great experience.  The camp site has cozy tiny cabins with beds, a shop, some ping pong.. and with the warm weather we've been having it's a little like being at summer camp outside of Venice.

Well, summer camp with a little prosecco

The cabins

 We ventured into the city in the morning (there's a quick bus that drops us in the city center) and just spent the day exploring without a map.  There was plenty to see, and it's really incredible how the city had been built around the waterways.  As we headed into the afternoon the tiny city streets were filled to the brim with tourists which made it a little harder to enjoy so around 5:30 we headed back to our camp site.

At one of the many markets we wandered by

Bambino

Chiesa della Salute

Palazzo Ducale

One of the hundreds of windows displaying glass art around the city

The hoardes of tourists

One more day in Venice, and then off to France!  After many phone calls and emails we finally lined up a WWOOFing opportunity to work on while in France--- a goat cheese farm in Southern France (Saint Afrique, near Montpellier).  We'll be there for our first two weeks, and then head north to Paris for a couple days. 18 countries down, 5 to go!