Venice and Florence

Sorry it's been so long since my last post. Internet connections have not been very good.

A couple of days ago, we made our way to Venice by train and water bus. Venice was very beautiful and had lots of canals. Venice is famous for glass-blowing, so there were lots of cool glass blowing shops there. In lots of the shops there were glass balloons that were so lifelike it was like real balloons.

One of the days in Venice was spent doing an awesome gondola ride all over the city. On the other day we went up a big tower that had a view of all of Venice. We also went into a museum full of paintings, but they weren't very interesting. There was one sculpture of a guy with a way oversized club about to bash a snake, but the funny thing about it was that he was completely naked ('its cultural').

After Venice, we headed to Florence. We only stayed in Florence for one day, but we did lots in that short space of time, including the incredible statue of David. It was so detailed, and it looked like he was actually there. We also walked up a 82 metre tall tower with an awesome view of Florence, as well as a 92 metre tall church with an even better view of Florence. 

We then went to Rome, but I'll tell you about that in a couple of days.