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The Credits – Part 4

Shout out to Irina for not only taking fully charge of Poland’s trip but also for taking all pictures because either my finger or my phone could handle it.

Recap of what had we done?

Above All Else, Take In Any Daily Light Chance

Sun’s appearance is something we have to cherished on, do German outside activity a.k.a spazieren gehen around the pretty buildings, tried to pay attention to Gdansk’s mysterious bridge opening time or opt for other directions.

Iri said she hates the fact that our beannie will always go up, so I used two of my hairclips to keep it down. Did it work? Meh… not so sure. Long story short, it became really complicated once we got inside to a restaurant I need to take it out one by one ~ thick gloves + giant bottle + scarf + Ororo + hats. That’s why they said ~ if I was a toy, it’ll be written Accessories Are Sold Separately

I Can Love You in the Dark

Around 16:30 the sun has gone, had it not for Roberto and Zibi for sure we would already go back to our AirBnB at 18:00 😀 Not because the city wasn’t pretty, more like our body automatically think it was already 23:00.

Brought two colors of Beanie, wearing red is the better one. Roberto always found her first while Zibi founds me, thanks to my red beanie, it made me visible 🙂 or even part of somethings bigger or smaller 😉 Mr. Gnome

Indoor Chance

I always aim to the mall instead of our AirBnB if I want to use the loo mwahaha ~ if I was back at my place, won’t move out into the coldness everrrr.

Went to a Pierogi place, their Menu looks very fantastic, Irina reminded me “Marlyn each is 300 gram, are you sure you gonna have 6 pcs?” I ended up with 5. Ordered their beer, OMG it was sooooo good!

Tis the Season to Be Jolly, Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

At first we didn’t grasp the size of Gdansk Christmas Market because it was splitted into some sections, it was the largest they ever got.

Saw some stand I never saw in Germany before, Oysters! not gonna leave Gdansk before I had it. And one other where people always wait in line, for a small sweets? Marlyn, are you really gonna wait? Yes I am. It wasn’t sweets at all, was cheese! Definitely two pcs is enough.

Learn About #Solidarnosc.

Poland’s non violent social movement who challenged the communist government and fight for democracy. It’s important to visit this museum, very well explained about when the strike started in Lenin Shipyard Gdansk that caused another chain of strikes, how they got their 21st based requirement fulfilled only to be taken away few years later. There are some people Polish need to be proud to have, Lech Walesa is one of them.

Uncomfortable Facts

We experiences some rasistic behavior from mens in Gdansk. You do not need to be able to speak Polish to understand if someone mocking at you. One guy outside the train station while we were lost at finding our street and one guy while we were taking picture in the dark screaming at us. We didn’t bother anyone, maybe we were too sensitive? No! I walked by three guy with a pumpkin on their hand during day light, one of them looked at me saying “cang cing cong” insulting my Asian face. You three put Polish people on shame!

Fazit

Poland really has some history for a quiet young country. I shall revisit you… perhaps in Summer where I’ll know I’ll Survived

Thank you Irina, I won’t have these beautiful Poland Express memories without you, love you Bitch! <3

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Survived

Oh Marlyn, it’s written: better to be overdressed than underdressed for the walking tour ~ informed Irina. Allright, I put on double layer in everything: socks + pants + clothes. We spent 3 hours walking on -6 degree, many people gone in the middle of the tour, had to take a break in a Cafe to buy some drinks or use the bathroom because at some point I wasn’t gonna make it.

While Irina was on the cashier line, I was on the toilet line, it was only one, we had to squezze, behind me was a guy name Roberto ~ at that time I didn’t know his name yet. Switch position with Irina, I heard her speaking Spanish to…. Roberto! Then I came with our chocolate + rum drink “oh it’s you again!” he also really needed the break for the same reason ~ he wasn’t going to make it. Not long after, his boyfriend called all of us to come out as the tour has to be continued.

We were enduring for the last one and a half hour of cold Gdansk. Ended up in a restaurant, I had my calamari rice whereas they were only drinking tea. We were talking about what was our plan, turns out we have similar one, we wanted to go to Sopot the next day so we all went together 🙂

Roberto asked “are we going to rely everything on my boyfriend or we do actually have a concrete plan”

Oh I’m happily chose the first.

Zibi is Polish so we do not have to think about which train, platform, when to get off #Pampered.

Behind the Sopot sign was a church, don’t know if its opened. Roberto mentioned “it’s the house of Lord, you can always come anytime”. He was correct, three of us entered the church, Iri said “cute” + Roberto “Wow” + me “guys, there is a coffin, I think we need to get out”. It’s all make sense now on the type of car parked outside of it. We were so cancelled, Zibi next time informed us so we didn’t crashed someone’s funeral!

Off to go to the famous Sopot bridge where Zibi kept sliding as if he was on the ice rink, we went quite far like almost reached the end until our stomach called us, we need to act up. He found a very good restaurant.

Roberto ordered Zupa la Zupa, can’t remember which type, it was the one with bread, very delicious. Then main courses came, the waiter want to take the Zupa, NO! We are still eating it. I like my food, just not the potatoes. In the end I was very happy we still have the bread from the Zupa.

They went back to Gdansk while we went to Gydnia. You can fell the Communisim in this city is still pretty strong, it didn’t take us long time, let’s cut it, went back to gathered with them again haha.

Zibi bought Roberto an Amber pendant from Sopot and Roberto bought a necklace to which he doesn’t need the pendant. Iri said “give it to Marlyn, she will take any free item” yessss! Now I have your supposedly pendant 😉

Zibi managed to book the very fancy + always full restaurant, even my drink came in a Glass cage with smokes. Irina’s friend introduced a very cool bar, it took us some efforts to find it but it was worthy!

We met on our last day in Poland for Pierogi dinner. Me & Iri went the previous day for soury taste, so happy we could try their sweet taste too. Closing the night with Glühwein right next to it #Literally, I shouldn’t have placed back all my accessories haha.

This evening, I found out Zibi’s ability to sleep through the entire flight without using the bathroom so he never know how does a toilet on airplane looks like. Irina dragged Roberto to listen to “She’s on the money” Yaaiisss!! We need rich friends! 😀

Believe in the magic of survival skill, from “we were not gonna make it, our toes gonna have frosbite, to we did made it! “

I hope to see you again, read: come to EU please XOXO

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Accessories Are Sold Separately

One Castle Irina wanted to go: Malbork Castle ~ approximately one hour away from Gdansk. Bought the ticket however…. there was no chance to understand the where and what type of train, it was all written in Polish. Google mentioned one train right in front of us ~ red colour, looks way too fancy for the price we paid. We were 100% sure our ticket couldn’t take this. Let’s wait for the next one… waiting… waiting…. it finally arrived, you could directly see it was more budget ~ blue color, showed our ticket to the conductor, he said “next one”. The next one arrived ~ another blue. Well…. how long will we wait then? let’s just hop in.

Read our confused face, a guy asked if he can help, yes please! if you can tell us if this train go to Malbork, got double confirmation from him and a mother who also wanted to go there with her son. Since we didn’t buy seat reservation, we always moved to the next empty seat. It was only two long stops from Gdansk, we have moved three times until the conductor checked our ticket. We weren’t supposed to take this one, great! Yet, our stop is on the way, they couldn’t really kicked us out. Once arrived at the station, hmmmm where to go? I said “let’s follow the mother & son, I saw they were going that way” turns out she was also searching for us and Irina became our Shepherd.

She bought audio book. Wow, more accessories on me #Facepalm.

I’m very glad she booked it, without it we would certainly be lost, there was no clear sign on where to go next. I started to enjoying it, it takes 4-5 hours to complete the whole castle. In the middle of the story, it said we need a break #Thoughtful.

Walked around outside the castle, nothing to do there, decided to get closer to Madonna and Child statue. Tried to replicate it haha.

While walking back to train station, we passed the very interesting Malbork sign, ought to have a photo of it. How? We thought to do copy paste as do not want to ask passerby ~ why simplified while we can complicated it 😉 Put one of my accessories into the use.

Boah… the struggle of taking it

#Worth a thousand words 😀

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Mr. Gnome

My favourite Bitccchhhhhh texted me for one purpose: sychronising our holiday… we do still have some days left! Neither Germany nor Amsterdam are not cold enough, let us hit Poland hey! 😀

She was already there a week earlier with her friend, I jumped into the Wagon afterwards. Played my Uno Reverse card this time a.k.a table has turned, meaning I didn’t plan any, nada, niente, null. Not bother to know where we’ll stay, what kind of activity we’ll do, what to eat etc.

First stop was Wroclaw. I arrived in the evening around dinner time, Irina asked if I want to eat Polish food? Perhaps later, I wanna have Ramen now! Who searched for the restaurant? her #Obviously 😉

While she was waiting in line, she pointed:

  • I was there in the Galeria-Hof, there are animals, you can have a look and touch it.
  • Why would I touch an animal at this hour?
  • No, were only a statue
  • Ahhhhh! Ok Ok

Saw it, backed at her still on the line waiting. The place doesn’t have good ventilation so we were stinky right after, the Ramen itself was good though! We hang our clothes for two nights in the balcony to reduce the smell. Next day, we did walking tour, ready to learn some Polish history.

Something very funny about this place is the number of Gnome scatter on doorways, alley, windows, street corners etc. What was started as a peaceful protest became an invasion 😉 so much so till the number reached more than 1.100. Forget about the churches or castle, we were on Gnome hunting!

The first Gnome ever to honor the movement is Papa Krasnal. So many distractions during our Papa Krasnal hunt; must buy new gloves ~ obviously can’t pay with card, had to go to ATM; being tempted by Popcorn smell; wait! we have another factor need to be considered here: The Weather, once it got dark, we couldn’t see Papa Krasnal or any other Krasnal anymore. Set our priorities straight and Papa was found!

How wonderful it was to be on the Christmas market freely without feeling like a sardine #Köln experience. Speaking about Germany, why do we have a Bavarian Lion? #Confused.

Wearing a red beanie was the correct choice, it made me visible or genauer gesagt made me Marlyn Krasnal #Part of Krasnale Tribe.

Mr. Gnome, you are such a creativity, thank you for the entertaining 🙂

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It’s Not in Vain

Relax wasn’t at my card that evening, saw Stadt Dortmund has another campaign to write a sentence: DO, wo…. Given myself some thought of what Dortmund meant for me then I followed the instructions. Few seconds later, my IG was suspended. What?! Was I scammed? Immediately asked Dominik if he could see my page ~ he couldn’t. Damn! shit shit shit, what did and shall I do now?

I was 100% sure it was because I send the confirmation stating I participate on Dortmund Motto to my IG that somehow considered as “collecting sensible information”. Regardless, I don’t need to know the “Why” all I want to know was the “How” to unblock it. Read the instructions, need to submit Selfie with white background etc I had to search for my old photos then only the agony left… waiting…

Within one day I got it back, yes! What a relief, had I not… I’m gonna do Instagramfree life. One week later, I got another Email informing my sentence was one of the first 30 chosen! Whoaaaa, at least all the shocked are not in vain 😀

Since it’s still a running campaign, mine would only be projected for three days, next batch are coming. Unfortunately I couldn’t witness it because I wasn’t in Dortmund but at least one of my reason could 🙂

#Proud Dortmunderin!

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Revenge

We registered to a free public viewing EM qualification Luxembourg vs Germany by Check24. There were many freebies: 1*Trikot + 2*Beers + 1*Bratwurst + Fansartikel (like a scarf or hat). It’s written Geschenke auswählen, perhaps only one of those?

The Stadion opened since 18:15, we arrived one hour later. Went through the security checked where I was dammned because I had pepper spray on my pocket, rrrghhh I think they will take it away. They did, she asked me to emptied my pocket, hold it, asked what’s that? Protection against big dog, oh! it’s verboten. Then she asked me to open my bag, there I had my 150ml mini bottle, same question, answered water. I had to throw it ~ not the water, the bottle. Oh noo! This Baby Flasche has been with me since 2023 🙁 I think she was already in a bad mood because of my pepper spray.

What was an originally Kostenlose event resulted of me needed to buy new pepper spray + Baby Flasche. Once we officially inside the stadion, I realized turns out we could get all those perks. Hell yeah, won’t stopped after the Bratwurst. I’m not a fans on collecting some Werbung stuff but that has fade, for the stuff they took away ~ I need to make it breakeven. Don’t care how long the queue to get those stuff, I’m getting all of it!

The game started at 20:45, until that time we got our Bratwurst + Trikot + Rubbellos to get the Fansartikel (mine scarf and hat while Dom got only scarf) + 2*Free drinks. Check24 had two screens, in the middle there was a stage with entertainment like DJ, Singer, Dancers etc, there were round about 15.000 people on the spot, not bad hey!

When we took a selfie, the guy sitting next to us were funny, he was posing as if Dom took picture of him, he proceed to take Dom’s phone and then make a selfie of himself ~ after that he made a picture of us, for me that was the highlight of the evening 😀

First half of the game was rather boring, passiert ja nix. Told Dom we could just go…? during break time we let other people to leave first whilst the singer came back to stage, sang völlig losgeslöst von der erde, followed by Kiss Cam. Well, once it’s done, the second half started, let’s continue watching. We saw two goals were made, OK safe, 10 Minutes before the game ends, we collected the last 2*Free drinks from my coupoun then proceed to walk home.

At the end they were throwing away the Fansartikel, I picked up the hat from the floor, can give it to Finny 🙂 I couldn’t get him the size L Trikot but at least I got him something haha.

Very big advertisement by Check24 for sure, well there are always pros and cons to a free event. Stadion rule: only bring your G-E-L-D.

Now that I downloaded the App, I will come to their next event to get my revenge 😉 #use it to the max! Sometimes when it’s free, it wasn’t really free, you paid it in another way. Thank you Baby Flasche, I hope I gave you an experience of your 2,5 years old lifetime #Breaking heart.

On the way back, because of our costumes, people were wondering what was happening? was there a play? More or less, it was a qualification. We have watched the beginning of it, let’s see how far Deutschland can go 🙂

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The Moment I Knew – Trial Version

Tonight is The OG vs The Rookie’s, shall we kick things off?!

It’s 3rd round of Allerheiligen Kirmes! Had Hainka didn’t told me, I would’ve missed it, obviously this comes first other than some singing #Sorry not sorry #Not the only one who feels bad. Traditions are meant to be followed, otherwise what’s the point?

Since Feli always want to come, I asked her if she could join us this time, Dom is on board too. So we were a gang of 5 this year. Once we arrived, waste no time to have our mandatory picture, watch out ~ only the OG here, although our pose were only stand, we need to confirm the position & angle with comparison pictures from previous years #Efforts!

Hainka & Lena were steady as always ~ very good guide, told the Rookie what is what + what we’ve done + where all the attractions were before: how they changed the locations, swapping here and there.

Our essentials throughout the years: AMPEL! 7 Euro for all three flavors ~ my favourite! We cannot skip Froggy! why? Because Lena won it! BOAH!!!! The OG really has experienced in comparison to…. video will do the justice 😉 Promat Hammer still there, wonder if they would ever change to Tecwerk’s #Werbung.

Honey schnapps where the owner sing or tried to talk with customers and he announced: “oh this couple are coming from far away, can anyone guess?” being a German they weren’t the type of answering those kind of questions, from Bodensee. Hainka wasn’t impressed, eh komm, du kommst theoretisch aus Indonesien, es ist doch weiterer als nur Bodensee. Sag ihm doch mal, he did say to the colleague of the owner while he was too busy on his microphone to noticing us. Well, I didn’t gave him my Beitrag anyway so it’s OK for him to ignoring me hahaha. Next in line is Langos 🙂 Food Tour is done, for Schnapps Tour, one more station: Augenbulle.

Strolled around pointing the historical place where I was gekotzt haha which pavements, alley, bar and church #Facepalm. Oh, consecutively met another Lena!

Dom kommt überall mit, he joined Hainka on the Super Supferl #My Wendepunkt Carousel + joined Feli on Voodoo Jumper. Right on the end, we stumbled upon Big Monster Carousel, Lena said it’s the OG, from hundred years…. as if I want to change the prophecy, let’s try. First minute was OK then it was too much, seems age didn’t lie hey? Komischerweise, Achterbahn for me is not caused so much troubled as this one.

Our To-Do List:

  • Ate what needed to be eaten #Nomnomnom
  • Schnapped what needed to be schnapped #酒鬼
  • Played game what needed to be played #Smashed
  • Rode what needed to be ridden #Dizzy
  • Met who needed to be met #Hi
  • Had all the fun that needed to be had 🙂

My boyfriend bought me a Lebkuchen that I was contemplating if I need to eat or use it as Decoration? Well it has 2 years of expiration date, it’s enough to decide until then 🙂 Can you see it? can you can you?

For the past two years, I always rode home ALL BY MYSELF! This year and hopefully for the next years to come, I won’t be ALL BY MYSELF anymore! Why? For I have a big heart now 🙂

Thank you for the evening Hainka & Lena, store your clothes again because those outfits are not going to retirement anytime soon, it’s our OG trademark, watch out!

The Moment I Knew – Safe Version

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The 8 “Working” Hours – Part 5

I’m just a kid and life is a movie park! Sunday morning 02.11 wake up at 8AM getting ourselves ready for a ride to Bottrop, last day to see Halloween theme.

Arrived half hour after their opening time, started with simple one for kids where you just lay down, very comfortable, then next to it who looks very easy yet caused schmerz on my side as we thrown to the left & right. Studio C was good especially with unexpected rückwarts O.O

Let’s have a snack, shall we? In this kind of place, what else could you get other than currywurst + pommes? Best staple food, don’t forget we need some sugarrrr which we got from Churros. While waiting for our Verdauung system, we took Riesenrad. Sind verdaut, ready for action by taking the Holz Achterbahn; followed by the one Dom called “Industrial” where your feet are hanging. Then went to take Starfleet roller coaster, in my opinion that was the best!

Had to admit I took off my glasses on each attraction because Faktor U. I got scaredddd, habe Angst! closed my eyes many times. Puhhh Aging effect is real hey! Is it the end of my brave Era? #Thinking #Leaning to yes. By the way, never trust the German weather, it said cloudy, it wasn’t, the sun existed for about 8 hours. While people screamed AAAAA, to me it’s more like AAAAAAging!!!!

We walked passed a stage where DJ Max Bering from Acid Rain played his music, it was fine but then it started to drizzle so we opted for some dinner. On what supposed to be Parade they have many Halloween characters coming out, walking on the boulevard, scaring us. I’d say they’re pretty awesome, the clothing + make up, for sure each took 3 hours to the least.

Before moving on to our next Agenda, curiosity got the best of us, we KNEW exactly those kind of games were designed to failed. Given some thought… just one game, OK? If we won then we have our decoration for next year ready as I was aiming on the Spider. Obviously, I didn’t get it, nope… we’re far from done, Dom wanted to try other game too, of course we’ve known the result.

We bought additional ticket for the show, called Unhallowed 2 ~ didn’t know there was the 1, costed 3 Euro each. I was very happy it wasn’t about Ghost, instead a combination of fire, pole dance, betrayal! Lasted for 30 minutes, very money’s worth. No photo allowed.

We still got time to Riesenrad ~ yeayyy we had day & evening view, plus last chance at Van Helsing Roller Coaster. I didn’t get the hype of why people are queuing for 80 Minutes, the ride was done inside & in dark (like space mountain). Yeah the moment I wear my glasses, I didn’t see nothing. My comment: was just alright.

In the end, rain poured down again, this time it didn’t stop, let’s clock off this 8 hours working shift 🙂 #We made overtime. If only real job was this fun #Mironic ~ Marlyn Ironic.

Good evening and Good bye 😉

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Re-confirm

Perks of spending too much time on the phone ~ leads me to a good deal!

Join us to the dark side

#Or perhaps in Slytherin, you’ll make your real friends ~ Sorting Hat

During our walk, Dom spotted a building with lights from outside, he pointed “would be cool if our Halloween is there” Feli looked at her GPS “actually, it might be” At first we thought it would be at a normal house party, it wasn’t, was on a restaurant called Friends.

Once we got in, the waiter greeted us by asking if we wanted to take some red spritz, ähnlich wie Bloody Mary with Tabasco and stuff. Mehh, only Feli had it. He explained the whereabouts of our All-you-can-eat. I “secured” the table while resting my feet #Multitasking. Dom and Feli took their first round. They came back with plate full of meat and dessert. Wow! The Ribs are amazing, next I took 4 Ribs, as if there will be no tomorrow. Nach dem Motto “Wir haben es schon bezahlt, hajaaarrrr!”

Moving on to photo sessions, what a shame if I don’t have a photo of me wearing these high heels. Felt for a second like Gloria from Modern Family at Disneyland haha. None of the attendees took pictures of the Halloween decorations, had all of them were Asians for sure every corner already on the Gram.

I was a bit unangenehmen because we blocked the entrance to the Buffet until Feli reassured me by saying “bagus tau!” 😀 Ignoring their stare, we took one corner whereas our main goal is the middle part. We waited until those two girls moved from the table, vergist es, they didn’t budge. Well… who moved then? the spider!

Should we go to the next round? Unsure if our money’s worth…. Dom got a tiny bit plate more to share with me. Continued to re-confirming everyone with one big question “are we already breakeven?” Only after we confirmed, we left the premise 🙂

Once you get to adulthood, not having money is the real Halloween #Spooky!

  • Location: Friends ~ Wellinghofer Str. 167, 44263 Dortmund
  • Price: 29 Euro (not included drink)
  • Comment: Very worthy, perhaps we should go for a normal dinner sometime #We are not all bad 😉

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Compromise

Dom and I still have few days off left hmmmm where to go? the options for doing holiday in Europe in Winter is limited, we do not need a colder place than Germany, warmer options were either Spain or Italy. He chose Italy, agreed immediately. Where then? Let’s go to Venice, si to a Romantic city 🙂

Our flight from Düsseldorf might be the earliest one, arrived around 10AM, ready for actions und zwar pronto! We dedicated full Venice on our first day to visit all mandatory places as much as possible and last day to either re-visit, ticking off the places where we couldn’t before, last but not least….. save the best for the last: Gondola Ride! #A MUST do activities.

First explorations: we let ourselves lost in the canals, visit St. Mark’s Square + Bell Tower next to it, take a stroll across Rialto Bridge, along Riva degli Schiavoni. We didn’t go to San Giorgio Maggiore because it’s located in another island. We only saw the whereabouts on the ferry to Murano.

We also joined… obviously: walking tour, tried to gain some Venice history knowledge ~ kann man vergessen, even my note doesn’t seems to make sense anymore hahaha. However, I have some fun facts: all the small bridges ~ even the one consist of 6 steps or so, turns out they connected two islands 😉

The booked out church for wedding: Santa Maria dei Miracolli. Why?

  • Religious reason: there is a painting of Virgin Mary & child associated with miracolous healing.
  • Practical reason: since there is no car in Venice, every entrance access is through the canal ~ conveniently next to the church.
  • Aesthetic reason: outside and inside was full of marble, the altar is lift up ~ there are 14 steps to reach to step 15 which is the altar itself.

Venice is recycling a building, from hotels to school, from Scuola Grande (Assosication for rich people) to public hospital.

Three Famous Venetian:

  • Marco Polo ~ not a game, he came from a wealthy family that’s how he got source of income to travel. He was famous because of his book “Il Milione” where he explained in detail his travel experience to China.
  • Giovanni Bellini ~ not a cocktail 😉 at his time, he was a famous painter.
  • Giacomo Casanova ~ a “playboy” with a very interesting life, he was a priest, scholar, musician, actor. Perhaps he was the most related to all of us, wasn’t born into a prosperous family, in fact he was a poor man. On his way to the Piazza to play music, he saved a man who turns out to be a nobel named Ramo Bragadin. Since Bragadin felt indebted to Casanova, he legally adopted him then introduced him to a very high class circle. The message is: you’ll never know who will you meet on the street 🙂

Venetian Mask is not only famous for Carnival, it was used as a disguised #Clever ball! it allows citizens to step outside social norms: nobles could walk through the crowded cities without being recognized, people could flirt / gamble / speak freely, it symbolized anonymity ~ allowing Venetians to be whoever they wanted for a moment.

After the walking tour, I was still contemplating if I should pay 9 Euro to see Venice from Scala Contarini del Bovolo? it was only 6 floors… Oopps no need anymore haha we came 12 Minutes after its closing time haha.

What’s still missing? A Gondola ride! FAQ:

  • How much does it cost? 76 Euro per person
  • How long? 30 Minutes ride, I even timed it, was only 27 Minutes
  • Did he sing? No!

We took it around 17:15 ish and it was Feierabendverkehr haha very funny to see all Gondola wait for each other. People were waiving at us from the bridge. The ride was purely an experience, can’t leave Venice without 😉

Recap for our 7 days trip: regarding the weather, we were so lucky, the water level was kept rising in comparison to the first day. In my opinion, our last day there could be the last comfortable day in Venice. The food on the other hand, I’d say very 0815. It was good but not as good as food from other cities. Sadly, I believed what Dianna told me ~ Venice has slightly lost it’s authenticity. She explained many Venetian sold their houses to the tourismus for Hotel or Restaurants. Our Guide Simone informed us during a normal day, Venice received 65.000 tourist daily, in peak season the number could reach to 100.000 #Phew. My archery friend Kate was very spot on, “you came to Venice solely for the view, the rest must compromised”

Nevertheless, I don’t mind, it’s still a wonder!

Venice, you are the painting <3

Apropos, still owe you something… right?

What should one do in a Gondola under the bridge?

Here you go 😉