We woke up at about 6:30am to pack up all of our crap and headed off to the train station. It was about 0 degrees and raining in Bern, but after a short trip to the main station, we got on a fast train up into the mountains to switch trains to Venice. Up in the mountains it was snowing A LOT. There was about 1 ft of snow on everything of which I took a few photos. We then continued on to Venice station, travelling through the beautiful mountains and northern Italian villages. Ariving in venice we found an infromation centre and and made our way to our hotel; a tiny little place with tiny little rooms, but more than adequete for sleeping and bathing. We then were about to go out when we noticed that there was an ad for a laundrette, something we had not visited during our whole trip yet. We were completely out of clean clothes, so we spent an hour and a half doing laundry. the only other people in the laundry were Aussies too; the Kathmandu clothing gives us away every time. We then wandered the streets of Venice, but it was dark and everything was closed, so we just found a little restaurant and got some pizza/canaloni, which was terrible. We then went and found St Mark's Square, hung out for a bit, then realised we had 5 hours before it was New Years. We went to a little bar and had a few drinks, but it was kinda dull and there was no buzz or excitign atmosphere anywhere, so we went back to our hotel for a bit, where I then fell asleep. Luckily Jess didn't, and we headed back out at 11pm, stopping at a cocktail stand on the way, picing up some pina coladas. There were about 50, 000 people in the square, mostly drunk and ALL smoking like trains. It was like being in a pub before smoking laws, but this was outside and still choking after the countdown there were some fireworks over the harbour, which you couldn't really see from the square where everyone was... stupid. It was a great location, but it was a typical New years, slightly disappointing. We then went home to bed.
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