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I am very late writing this blog and quite tired, so i’ll try to make it short.

We started by taking the train to the main island and its Santa Lucia station. There are trains there every five to 10 min, and they cost about one euro (and free with the Interrail of course!) First thing first, getting a 2-days pass. This is also awesome valueas long as you take at least four boats, which was our intention for today.

After a bit of struggling to find the correct Vaporetto (boat bus) stop, we boarded a direct one to the famous Murano island. A bit of walking around and an expansive lunch later (I’m on holiday, ok?), we went to a glass sculpting demonstration, and it was super fun! The speed and ease with which the master (kind of the mechanix of the glass) manages to turn the red hot piece of liquid sand into a beautiful horse in a minute is mindblowing (pun intended). But not as much as the crazy collection of art pieces they showed afterwards!

A boat took us back to the Eastern shore of the main islands, and form there we switched to another vaporetto going to the South-Eastern tip of Venezia [Venice]. As I expected, this part of the main islands is barely visited. It was an appreciated moment of quiet walking, before we quickly found back the mass tourism.

We escaped it (not without a coffee and a gelatto though) with yet another boat to the Southern island of Giudecca, also a calm and relaxing place, facing San Marco. By this point I was getting very tired and without much energy left, so we took one last boat, going all around Venezia by the Western side.

There I fucked up. I wanted to stop at the carpark, in order to come back to the train station via the People Mover. However, we didn’t stop were I thought, but Duha was lovely enough to come along with my stupid plans, and we took it in the other direction.

And then we took it back, as we should have.

But what’s a People Mover? Well, from what I learned a bit later, it’s yet another type of rail transport, considered to be neither a train, a tram or a metro or a monorail. Nice! Another one under my belt!

Anyway, the main place in front of the train station was very crowdy tonight for whatever reasons, but we found a small piece of pizza to grab and ate it on the way.

One last train back on the continent to end up a long, exhausting, but amazing day.