Europe journal 9-from Nice to Venice

August 16th, 2008, Venice from Nice to clear up

Nice to Venice, or buy a ticket for the train slowly.

This, this car can go directly to Milan and then (one way). Somehow, the car has been slow. Watch the driving time is over, or missing electronic screen shows the car of the train. The station together more and more visitors, estimates should be and our direction. But people are platform upwelling in the past. I let my daughter may ask a daughter just don't like someone ask, would they like as never head flies find West looking East. I am anxious and ask her, do you not speak a foreign language? cornered, and eventually to the people make. Originally, this car was cancelled, but there is another trip to the border line of the train can, there and then transfer to the train to Milan Italy.

Hurried into the platform.

The first time I saw the train so crowded, just like at home. This is a double-decker trains, I get to the top compartment, the compartment has a large group of Chinese students. See my aunt level of Chinese people, someone got a seat. These students told me just to France, taking advantage of yet-to-school, the first tourist. Really happy for them to catch up with the good years. Think at first, our age, not all in the vast world, receive further education? daughter stand in the aisle, no crowds, and maybe she didn't want to come and participate in this conversation. My daughter is that older students, and students seem to have some kind of estrangement. "The generation gap!" she often said. However, I do whatever the generation gap is not a generation gap, I like to chat with people on the trip, both for company and understand many things that you do not know.

In Italy the border for cars, heavy people at all do not know where to go to a powder.

The train again European train the unique spacious and quiet.

Enter Italy, train or ride along the Eastern Mediterranean.

Continue to enjoy the beauty of the sky to the sea. Gradually the sea back up into the hills and mountains. Italy's rural, village and field, obvious to the clutter. Looking for features, unlike in Europe, but rather is in the area of Fujian, Jiangxi, China. The train from time to time to go through the tunnel in a partly not are water, Milan station.

See the Nice station seems to be the compatriots on both sides of the family see.

Try and they greet, sure enough, the answer is with a foreign flavor of Mandarin. They also went to Venice. The big, follow them looking car. On the bus. In the car, we chat up the days to come. The original family vacation with children, from the United States from the European tour. Itinerary and we are generally the same. This is a struggle in the United States has many years of middle age Chinese couples, most gracious and kind.

The train continued to Southeast direction.

Temperature apparent heat up – Italy in Europe belong to latitude lower country. The train is very patient in a docking station, bus passengers up and down, mostly on free expression and the rich. Let people feel, whether here or in Europe. My daughter said, like Italy, they generally are very beautiful. Is well proportioned, colour on the face deep, mellow, and features. Watch carefully, think that's the case.

Scenery gradually look.

To see a large Gulf (maybe just Lakes), the higher mountains in the distance, a magnificent landscape of mountains, water, that Venice is coming. Asked about the opposite of the old couple, say no. Until you see the large surface, realized, this time really to Venice!

The railway has now been extended to Venice's largest island.

The railway is a lying in the sea of changqiao! press said, we buy a train ticket is not on the island. But I heard that the train can be directly on the main island, also no holds barred. Here really amazed how Chinese flexibility (himself, sorry)! we scheduled family hotel on the island of Li Ya bridge nearby. It is a Chinese opened family hotel. Call the past let people come to meet at the hotel, hotel, respondents reported that, as long as you follow the road signs will soon be able to find in ya bridge, they were waiting for us on the bridge. From the United States to fellow family is booked hotel. Then we broke up.

Follow the flow of people, all the way to find road signs.

And-a-landmark also considered clear, no fees, no trouble to Acharya flower bridge. That is a rack in the Canal on relatively large arched stone bridge. Some of the Gallery deck. Looking for Acharya flower bridge, we also look at the Venice the city of water roughly a.

Venice is worthy of a world famous city.

It is said that from 118 small islands. The whole city seems to be floating in the sea of Red leaves. It is water-water, bridged bridge. People have to go out on the River, the boats sail ship-hoi, throw open their Windows and fall asleep. Walking in the streets of Venice, thought it was back to the distant Oriental home.

His home town Suzhou is water.

In recent years also many names called "Oriental Venice". Therefore, this kind of "water lane bridge over the River, people do pillow, I" is not new. In the 1950s, my family from Suzhou city northeast corner to move to the Southwest, is hired a boat this migration is complete. Childhood memories is started from the ship. After a slightly longer, I help with the housework, rice dishes, jig, in front of the River (Pier), many of the neighborhood's drinking water from the River directly carry (my home is well in the yard, you can not carry River). Little river traffic every day, from the countryside to fresh agricultural products shipped, and delivered to the junk from the town of stool, from time to time, to lan up river silt, bamboo flying up and down a dead-vessels, up river silt we all caught it, these are the country's good fertilizer! our primary back door close to the Canal. The front door that one year is always wet the narrow stone streets almost every family is a Lager. Whereas the rear door of the River every house is the throughput of goods in ports. Such a scene, such as the shuicheng pattern, then the development of the city slowly disappeared. Decades later, although began working to sort out the waterways, and out of the water city brand, but this is mostly open to depthThe tourism, of course, the point of discharge, emission features. Now new dredge the river port branch, the United States, however, and living already.

Listen to me by reading the "Oriental Venice", daughter couldn't help laughing.

Said MOM, two cities do not have comparable? Yes, daughter of the nineties, the growth is rapid development of economy of Suzhou, the daughter of impression, what what water characteristics? is full of people, vehicles and construction sites. However, in the Mainland of Suzhou, did not develop? Venice can keep the water city style, and it is in the sea itself consists of numerous small islands. There is information about that Venice had no car. Is Venice's residents don't want to sit in the car, I think not. Is the environment. As for now, Venice more valuable is the value of its tourism, the authorities certainly will protect.

Venice houses mostly stone, robust and beautiful.

A typical European style. Also, and many tourist cities, the street was transformed into a restaurant, coffee shop and sell all kinds of tourist souvenir merchandise store. Especially characteristic of Venetian glass crystal jewelry, Crystal bright, modeling, and get headlines. The girls met is to be drawn.

The Chinese have opened the hotel named the Sea town of (suspected, and in the vicinity of a Grand Hotel with the same name), is located in the deep roadway.

A humble little door, directly on the floor, 3rd floor, were transformed into hit the guest rooms. We stayed in the room, putting two double bed, two single bed. Day four of the actual residence. Our shady and two Chinese girl. Accommodation fee is 25 euro a person. Package and evening meals. Hotel master, came from the Northeast. Reportedly, the hostess or Korean. Enthusiasm and talkative. Meals are delicious.

Records about today's costs: nice to Milan train 30 euro a person Milan to Venice train 22 euro a person

Venice accommodation 25 euro a person a day

Train sitting next to the old couple, raised before the camera in order to obtain their consent, is very complex to put such a posture)

(Acharya flower bridge on the Grand Canal in Venice)

(Guest before the gondola on the canal boat)

(They do pillow, r.)

(Riverside Cafe reflects all the charm of Venice)