Alright. So we did all the touristy things in venice except pay 100 euros for a gondola ride. I´d already gone on one, and it would have blown our budget anyway. We went to this really cute place for dinner called trattoria de bapi. It was one of the best meals we´d had there, plus there were two entertaining events that happened while we were there:
1) This family of four (dad, mom, boy and girl) came to eat, but there wasn´t room outside. The host said that they could put there name in and come back in a half hour or so, and the guy goes, "Rooney....I think you´ll recognize it." What?? I hope there was a reasonable explanation to why this guy thought he was so famous.
2) These two older guys had ordered an apparently expensive, nice bottle of red wine, and when it came, they insisted it was warm. So they had the waiter bring out some fancy wine thermometer which got stuck down the neck of the bottle. It was a few degrees warmer than they wanted, so they had the waiter bring out a bucket of ice- like for champagne. It wasn´t like this wine was 90 degrees or anything...just 5 degrees too warm or something!
We left venice this morning, and are now in munich. Strangely, I love germany. I didn´t think I´d dislike it, but the people here are by far the most helpful in terms of train schedules and directions. They seem to genuinely like us, unlike the cranky italian woman who barked at me to go to the information booth to figure out what train to take, and then to come back to her, wait in line, and then she´d book the tickets. Grumpy, grumpy.
So that´s it...oh, except I have another funny *tm* story. It´s short. We were having dinner last night, and had our bottle of sparkling water on the table. She went to pour me some more, but didn´t take the cap off. It wasn´t totally on either, so water poured down the side and onto the table!
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