Due to my two days of free time in between more two days of working at a camp ground i've been having more time to do creative stuff, like finally making ear rings out of the shells i found on the lido the second-to-last time i was in venice for friends' birthdays etc. and guess what... it was a whole lot of fun. so i decided, i would start doing more in that direction, and if i manage, i'll also put pictures online of things i make, just in case someone has the natural desire to buy one of those goodies. remember... very unique and special :-)
(by the way, i can look for a street in a way too small map of vienna, print out a different map of that street and mark that street on the other map with a green marker, all with my left hand, hiding a cookie in my right hand under the table...)
Just came back from Italy, where i had been for a week. Venice, Florence and Rome. Every city is unique and interesting on its own. Something else I found out, lonely planet guides are just plain awesome. So I went and bought one about Seattle. They have a big selection on the airport. So, anyway, Venice was nice, being Venice, the 24h ticket for the boat is pretty expensive (12€) but it also includes trips to Murano or the cemetery and the bus on the Lido. The public beach is OK. And as long as you say you are students from a country of the European Union (which we actually were, or at least 2/3 of us), you get huge reductions at museums. Never mind what it says on the signs. Just be sure most of you have a student identification card or something. The mafia hats (white, with a black band) are cheapest in Venice (8€, in Rome 10€).
Be sure it isn't a Monday when you are in Florence. Because all the museums are closed, even the Uffizi, and even the Gardens. The nice ones. Only Palazzo Vecchio is opened, and you can also roam parcs and book stores. There's a nice international book store called Feltrinelli or something.
The best ice cream I've had so far was in Rome, near the many hotels run by nuns, and there're some good restaurants in the same street, I think. Or somewhere around there. In the middle there's a big fountain, and a church with interesting music. Iternet cafe, pretty cheap. The colosseum is soo beautiful by night, and the moon next to it and all. Personally I think it's haunted. During our stay there we were in the middle of a Christian/Catholic congress, so we even got to see the Pope since just on the day where we had planned to visit the Vatican he decided to peek his head out of his window (or, actually, hold some kind of speech under a red velvet roof or something) and greet the chanting masses. Good thing was, the Vatican museums were "empty".