Well everyone, we're safe and and sound in Patras, Greece! the ferry here from Venice took 30 hours...ohmygosh, I never want to be on a ship for that long again...unless it's a cruise and we have a cabin :) We left Freiburg on Tuesday after some much needed recoup time. We got into Venice late, so went right to the campgound, had some pizza and went to bed...we were woken up at 6am by these puppies from this house right across the street (I think they're part of the owners of the campground or something) jumping all over our tent! What the heck! So I (Sarah) jump out of the tent and katie shields them from coming in, and I try to shoo them away but they think I'm playing and they're jumping all over me and biting (puppy bites) at my legs and stuff (good thing I had jeans on when I was sleeping) and I walk over to the house where they're from, and they're all basically hanging on my legs, and there's a woman inside sweeping the floor, and I'm like, Are these your dogs? And she doesn't understand English, and she comes outside and they're still biting at my pants and she kinda shoos them off of me like it's no big deal and they go over to their food dishes...thankfully no holes in the tent, so it's okay Dad :) Time on the watch: 6am...thanks a lot puppies... :) It's useless to go back to sleep for an hour, so we pack up, wait for the bus to come, get to the train station on the island of venice, and have to walk a ways to get to teh port. By the time we get there and get our deck passes (16 euro a piece but all the upgrades are way too expensive), it's like, 9:45 and there's nowhere to store our luggage before the ship leaves at 2, so we take turns going into the city. So we got to see Venice for like, an hour each :) But it was cool, and we were there in the morning before it got super busy, and we at least got to see the gondaliers (sp?). We didn't get to eat any gelato while there though, so we can't wait to get back to Italy after being in Greece to eat some :)
No time left on the computer here at the info place, so more to come when we get to our hostel in Athens!!! We miss you guys, and thanks for the posts! (although, we're already out of Germany Laura, but we did like Munchen a lot :)
Love from Greece!
Sarah and Katie
5 comments:
Ferry's are cool and all but 30 hours! yikes...it'll so be worth it though! do you have to take that on the way back too??
oh my god hahahahah, I know exactly what dog you are talking about. The thing came running at me and I was so freaked out but the girl was saying something to me that I couldn't' understand. hope you guys are having fun!
That's too bad you only got an hour in Venice and didn't get to ride on the gondliers, they're fun. But when I did it the water was pretty gross with trash. You didn't like a little pack of playful puppies (yeah alliteration!) to wake you up? Maybe that's how they do it there?
I'm exhausted just reading about your adventures. I'm glad you had some down time in Germany. At least you have your brush mirror, and I hope you're letting Katie use it too :) Sue and I have been looking at a few things for Scotland. Do you think I should go cold turkey off my diet pepsi before we leave because I don't think I have enough money to support THAT habbit in pounds/dollars :)
LOVE YOU
we're going to try to take the 16 hour ferry to Bari, Italy so we can go to naples, but to go half the distance on another ferry, it is twice the price! :0
yeah, they were cute puppies, but annoying :)
the water didn't look too bad...I told Mom that she could just gondalier me around in the canoe when we go to the boundary waters to make up for not going in Venice
katie is jealous of my brush, and yes Mom, you need to drop the habit, maybe this trip will be what does it for you! :)
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