Mogliano Veneto

We each had a decent sleep last night after three nights of rough dreams (for me anyway) and then had breakfast at our hostel that they provided. Surprisingly, they had a lot to offer! Fruit, fruit salad, buns, cereal, yogurt, meats, cheeses, juice, milk, butter, nutella... we had lots to choose from and had our fill before trekking off to the train station.

We stopped at the restaurant outside the station and I picked up another schnitzel sandwich (schnitzelsemmel) for lunch later. We then hopped on the 9:27am train to Verona. It took three and a half hours to get there and the ride was pretty uneventful. It was neat however, to see the landscape change from the alps to large mountains and then to become even flatter.

Once we got to Verona we had to change trains to head to Venice. We had to wait about half an hour at the station for our train. We had reserved seats that were apart from each other but found that someone didn't show up and so we got to sit together. The second ride was just over an hour or so. We arrived to Venice's Santa Lucia (Santa 'luchia') station and had to find how to get to our hotel in Mogliano Veneto. It took two stops at the train information desk to figure it out but we got it! We even validated our ticket (albeit upside down) which means we avoided the 30 euro fine for not doing so. That ride took about 25 minutes. We arrived to the station and upon exiting were not sure where to go (this is not unusual) but luckily our street and hotel were right infront of us! We really lucked out.

We checked in and then went for a walk around town. It isn't a big place so we weren't out long. I'm sure it is similar to a typical small Italian town versus Venice. We found a number of pizza and gelato shops on our walk but didn't stop for anything. Instead, we picked up some snacks at the store and then headed back to our hotel to shower before dinner.

We got dinner from the grocery store across from us, a small chicken and a mixed box of tater tots (but with real potato) and mozzarella balls. We ate with our hands on our bed, it was messy and delicious. We could still use some veggies though.

We're looking up sites in Venice we want to see over the next two days, rain or shine, and bracing ourselves for the price of a private gondala ride.

Hope it doesn't rain too hard tomorrow on us!

Chat soon,

Amanda