I woke up at 4.45am, had a bath before heading down to the lobby to collect our prepacked breakfast consisting of a bun with ham and cheese in it, an orange(which i detest out of all the fruits) and a bottle of water.
The tour bus picked us up from a nearby bus stop at 6.15am and we left for Venice. At 8am we took a short toilet break at a rest stop and had a cup of coffee. Italy really does serve nice coffee. It tasted superb and was very smooth.
At 10.30am, we arrived Venice. We decided to leave the main group and walk Venice by ourselves. First we went to Rialza and San Marco square, then we headed off to sight see other places. On the way, we bargained with a gondola owner and took a ride on one of the gondolas for a price of 15 euros per person. The ride was pretty nice, our guy was singing and introduced us to some of the places that we went by such as Cassanova's house, Vivaldi's house and the theater. After the ride, we started feeling hungry and went looking for food.
Finally we decided to have some local bread for lunch instead of having a sit down meal. According to posts on the net, we were advised to loose the map and just wander around till we got lost. And that was exactly what we did. At around 2pm, we finally got ourselves lost after we found out that we have been walking in rounds for the last 30 minutes.
We then started to look around and followed the map's direction back to the area for regrouping with the tour while stopping at places to take a peak at souvenir shops. We then took the the ferry back to the mainland and touched foot at 3.30pm.
We reached back in Rimini town around 7.45pm and decided to walk around the center of the town while looking for food. We found a restaurant serving a set meal only for 13 euros which consist of starters, 1st course and 2nd course. It was a very filling and satisfying meal. Took a 15 minutes walk back to the hotel which we reached only at 11pm. After washing up, fell right away to sleep around 12am.
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