Arrived in Chioggia

mercoledi 2 maggio

Well, we finally made it! We landed in Venice airport at 12:00 noon. We were greeted by Alessandro, Frederico (one of the Italian GSE participants), Achili and his wife Mariella, who escorted us by water taxi to Chioggio.

Another woman (also named Mariella) and Luigi met us at the hotel as we checked in and said they would take us on a tour de la citta della mattina (in the morning).

The weather was not great when we arrived. The skies were overcast and the rain started when we were on the boat to Chioggia. After we checked in, our group went to go to a restaurant that our hosts recommended. On our way there, we were caught in a torrential rainfall. We ran for cover under a covered patio. We decided to venture on because the restaurant was nearby. When we arrived, we realized the restaurant was closed until 7:00 pm. We had approximately an hour or so to wait so we went to a cafe and had a glass of wine. It was molto buono and only $1.50 euros (less than $2.50 Cdn). We went back to the restaurant (by now the rain had stopped) but it was still closed. We were all pretty tired and we didn't want to try and find another restaurant so we just went to a pizzeria and bought a slice and took it back to our room. We decided to call it an early night and went to bed by 10:00 p.m. We are very excited about our day tomorrow!