Carnaval in Venice

Rome, Italy

one of the last days i made something unbelievab like spend 10h in Rome and try to see as much as I could.

 Believe me IT'S NOT ENOUGHT!

I saw just the outside of the most known things like coliseum, S.Pietro's square (the church was closed), Trevi's Font and the ruins. The most part are very near so you can check them very easily and that is great because you can save time, in other way the most apart it was S.Pietro square, in the other side of the town and I picked a bus to get in there (about 30min).

I Can tell you that I spend almost the time walking and it was ok, so you can easily save money on transports, maybe one or twice times it's better you buy a tickect and go by bus/metro because it depends of where you are and where you want to go.

S. Pietro's Church at night

Torcello, Venice, Italy

Like you know Italy is a world to discover... and a simple island like Torcello at 45min by boat from Venice is a place very nice for a good walk with kids and also for relax a little bit from the crowd/confused Venice...
You could find a beautiful garden where you can make a picnic and easily spend some time with who you much like and also seat near to the river just to think or get some inspiration ...

 On the way to the park you can always walk through this beautiful Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (left image) that is near to the church of Santa Fosca.
 Those churches are amazing inside and you could see a spetacular "world" inside, they are free so get in it's an invitation .
 To arrive in this beautiful places you will find on the way this nice bridge and famous in many photos. His Name is "puente del diabo" (Devil's bridge) but don't worry, you don't need to across it!
This bridge is a great place for some touristic photo and also for great shoot's like i did with my friend.

Merry Christmas

This is The Day and I just Have one thing to Say




Merry Christmas 
      &
Happy New Year

Venice Fact

 Do you know that venice have a Lot of pigeons and that is just because someone start to use them like a touristic thing... and now every day there are a lot of them around the city and always someone with rice to give to the tourists and they gave to the pigeons!

 *Please do not do it! sometimes this birds could bring you some disease!

adventure in 5 Terre Part#4

to finish this journey I bought a vernazza - La Spezia Ticket ( 2,10 €) and we lunched at La Spezia at 13.30 Local time.

We where around this beautiful city and then we turned back and because it was so early (4.30 p.m.) , we decided to make another stop (using our 6h validate ticket that costs 7,50€ ) in S.Margherita where we arrived at the sunset and where we just saw the beautiful city by night (like this photo below we took).

Trenitalia Ticket Trick

I bought a ticket for the first time when i was around from venice and the i started reading the ticket and i found 3 good things!


 1º - Some tickets don't have time and date (you could buy and from that day into 2 months you could use it ).

 2º - They are valid from 6h after you validate him.

 3º - They don't have names so you could buy with low fare and then give to a friend (saving money).


Because of this i Diceded to buy tickets to long distance and then make a stop in the middle and like this save money to go more around ;)

Adventure in 5 Terre Part#3

The 3rd Stop was Vernazza!

This village was very similar and i guess we enter in a copy mode after the 2nd village so my comments doesn't changed so much...

This time i "didn't pay the ticket again" ( i will explain how! * Next post )

Not so much more to say about it...

Adventure in 5 Terre Part #2

After a 30 min stop in Monterosso i went to riomaggiore and this trip was so quickly that we dicided that with will do  the ticket on board if the controller come...

 3 minutes/ 1 Stop  = 1,80 € ( WE SAID NO! )

We did this part without ticket and than we were lucky and there was not controller so, NO PROBLEM !



This village is much beautiful and have a little more to show than the last one so we spend like 45min around, in a very slow mode...
In this village you could see the famous colored houses and also visit a castle (1,50€ ticket). In the castle you could see the castle and see a up point of view from over the city that gives to you a good view of the sea and all the villages.

Adventure in 5 Terre

My adventure in 5 Terre began on Genova at 7h30 in the regional train.
I choose pick this train to have enough time to see everything that i want with time, but going around 8h am is also ok...

 7.30 am -  Regional train to Monterosso ( 6,80€ )

 arrived at monterosso around 9h and then we took around 20min in seeing this first stop...


* there is nothing special just a simple beach and maybe if you are a hike person It is the beginning of the 5 Terre hike! But you can see the beautiful view by yourself in Here.

5 Terre

From some minutes away by train from Genova you could find some villages with the group name is Cinque Terre.

To be more specific i will explain step by step what i did and how can you visit every village without the touristic Ticket and appreciate this beautiful view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KVPza5nm00

Genova, Italy

Genova, Liguria, Italy

how to arrive: Genova Airport, Genova port (cruises), Bus, Car, Train

Perfect timing: 4 Days

How to move in town: By foot

Meal Price (general): 7€

What to visit: Via Garibaldi ( street with a lot of palaces); old port of Genova; Piazza Ferrara; Duomo church; "Porta soprana"; Cristovão Colombo House; 5 terre (will talk in another post)

City View Point

Piazza Principe Train Station

Genova ( Italy )

Do you remember my post about 1€ fares?!
So I picked and i was in Genova for 2€ (return ticket) by bus (5h).
Flixbus makes a daily trip from venice to genova and you can book it in advance and maybe you could pick less than 9€ (regular fare).

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Venice (mestre) Market

If you are thinking in buy something not so expensive in venice you should try the street market in Mestre.
The tents sell some things in a more normal prices ...
Every:
  Monday Morning
  Wednesday Morning
  Saturday Morning

Home is where you drop your anchor

 Even far way everyday I remember every single person in Portugal that supports me in this adventure and gave me the courage that I had to accept this!