Thursday, 25 September 2014

Venezia - giorno tre


I'm starting this post a bit on the annoyed side.
For my Italian school friends - does 'tu non hai aspettare?' mean 'don't you have to wait'??
Just went to the supermarket and the Italians (women especially) are just so rude!   There were heaps of people in line and one woman goes through, pays for her stuff then notices some plants that she wants, so instead of going through again she stands at the check out with her plants expecting to be served next, no regard whatsoever for the people in line.  She happened to look at me at the same time I noticed her, so, having had a couple of drinks and sick of rudeness everywhere here, instead of minding my own business, I said 'tu non hai aspettare?" and she just looked at me and said 'no capito', I repeated myself, and the man next to her just shrugged and said 'Inglese' and I almost lost it!  I repeated myself, pretty sure that what I said was right, luckily the check-out chick wanted my attention so Ihad to shutup.  Could my italian school friends, and italian speaking friends tell me that what I said was correct!! Or if not, please correct me!!
Anyway ...
I started the day with a lovely sleep in, woken by the noise of the people in the room next door - was about to complain to la sorella when I looked at the clock and it was 8.45am.  Fair enough then!  Took myself to the Rialto Market which is a bit of a let down really, for a vegetarian.  A few vegetable stalls run mostly by Indian people, and the fish stalls but I didnt go in them, you can smell them from miles away though.  I was wrapt to find the guy with the tshirts (they are everywhere) that has the dogs on it and the love Venice words.  He is the only person who sells them in Venice I bought one off him three years ago and today I got another three because as I told him that I'm not sure if I will be back in three years to get more.
On the way back to my room I heard someone muttering behind me and I didn't take too much notice because I hear that everywhere, until the muttering became a little more urgent so I turned around and there was an old signora trying to get up the steps of one of the bridges, so after many 'mi dispiace signora" for blocking the way, I let her go past, but noticed she was struggling so I offered to help her, gave her my arm and helped her up and over the bridge - well you would have thought I had given her a million bucks, molto gentile, buona giornata, grazie mille signora - good deed for the day done, we prego'd each other, air kiss, and buona giornata a lei!
From there I dumped my tshirts back in my room and found the ferry to Murano.  As you get off the ferry there is a guy there directing you to the place that does the glass blowing.  Little did we people getting off the ferry know that there are lots of glass blowing places there, not just the one.  Kudos to them for sending a tout out to the unsuspecting!
We watched a piece of glass being made, a fish or something, you would never know because after the guy has finished the piece it needs to go into another kiln for 24 hours so it could have been anything.
I wandered around there a bit then got the ferry back to San Marco, had pizza and wine there then went wandering in the opposite direction and strolled around parts of Venice where people live, the parts that I love.
Turned around and walked back to the crowded San Marco, through there to my room, and am about to go for one last wander before coming back and hitting the sack for the night.
Not sure what will happen tomorrow, no plans yet but would like to go to the Guggenheim museum at some stage and do some other stuff that isn't going to cost any money!

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