First Day in Venice

Yesterday on the overnight train (see last post). I heard the train was going to be several hours late. I had breakfast which was some orange juice, a chocolate chip muffin, and some local bread (which I didn't like very much). 

After several hours we got to the station in Venice. We took the vaporetto which means water bus to the area where an apartment we rented was. While we were on the vaporetto I had a look at Venice one thing I noticed was that the plaster on the buildings had peeled away. 

Eventually we reached our stop and we met the lady and she walked us to the apartment. We went to a pizza restaurant for lunch and then we went shopping at a near by store for food. We dropped the food in the apartment and went walking. 

The most interesting thing of the day is that we went to the Natural History Museum. It wasn't very big, but there was one really magnificent dinosaur skeleton. Also they had some skulls and relics of various animals. There wasn't much to see but it was very well presented. Also they had a several creepy rooms full of stuffed dangerous animals. In one case they had several animals standing on top of one another. See picture.

After that we looked in a few churches. They weren't very interesting. After that we went to a nearby restaurant and had a ham sandwiches. 

Then we went home stopping to get some gelato on the way.