V for Venice, city of masks and pigeons

Last weekend in November I spent in Italy, in Venice. The journey with Student Agency was very convenient, the only problem was that we arrived in Venice in 1:30 a.m., 5 km from our hotel (by highway)... the only possibility was taking a taxi for €20 (3x more than journey from CR to Italy and back:-)) The positive thing was the hotel itself, which was very comfortable and fancy!

In the historical centre, we found two Madonna's streets, so I couldn't have missed the opportunity to try some new cool poses:



Apart from Madonna, the city was also full of carnival masks and other fine stuff (e.g. the mask of the Cat from Shrek 2 or luxury underwear). I eventually bought small mask resembling Mr. V. from "V for Vendetta"... it was impossible not to think about the creation of this blog;-)

St. Mark's square with the St. Mark's cathedral (which was actually unbelievably magnificent) was occupied by hundreds (or even thousands) of pigeons... Some random pedestrians were completely covered with them, but pigeons feared me - so I have to put a piece of bread on my hand to make at least one brave guy sit on my hand. Really cool feeling... except for stinky surprise you find on your sleeve afterwards;-)


On the last picture, you can see the station of "water bus" (€5) which we tried instead of "water taxi" (€40) or famous gondola (€60). But it was pretty much the same... water like water:-)


PS: can you see the large globe in the center, so similar to the one from Madonna's Confessions Tour? ;-)