Birfday (aug 3/4)

Was mostly a travel day. We left Rome at 10am and arrived in venice around 2:0pm

Hostels in Venice were both fully booked and stupidly expensive... And in really glad they were or we wouldn't havethought to try a campground.

We're staying at camping Rialto, with tents and bedding provided, a shower and toilet building and even laundry facilities. It's been fantastic.

After checking in and laughing at how small our tent is, we headed back into Venice ( a 10 minute bus ride ) and walked around. We passed San Marco square and basilica (but didnt go in) and the Rialto bridge; the two main tourist sites. We also took billions of photos in billions of tiny bridges over the small canals, which will likely all then out identical though I bought each was photo-worthy.

So basically we saw all of Venice on foot the first day, but just to make sure, we did it again on door on august 4th, too, but this in we added a little shopping. By this point, the clothes that we've packed fir practicality are sickening us because the city is so beautiful so we wouldn't mind looking half decent when we take photos in it... And we currently look like sweaty bums (mostly because we are sweaty bums). I've been looking for a particular dress, and still haven't been able to find it, but I did buy one nice black shirt.
That night we found a pizzeria/snack bar on the water that wasn't expensive. I ordered pork and fries, and bays for adventurous with ink-soaked spaghetti. It actually was black. She said it was good though.

Backtracking, earlier on the 4th we walked to baye's old apartment in a square to write our postcards. It was so hot I passed out/fell asleep on the bench and barely got any written (now aug 12 I still have some Venice cards to mail!). I had to get gelato to cure me from the heat :)

When we get back to he campsite it's always a challenge to charge electronics cause you either have to charge in the bathroom while you shower, or sit on the patio of the market/restaurant/bar and wait for one of the 4 plugs to become free. At least with the latter you can have a beer and watch the olympics. We ended up having to do both methods of charging to keep our phones and cameras juiced. Especially when you wait 30 minutes for a shower anyways.