'The best fancy dress party in the world' - Jess Watson

Picture postcards from a Sunday day trip to the Carnevale di Venezia, with Jess, Emma and Steph. 

outside the station

Emma, Jess, Steph and I with newly decorated faces

Basilica San Marco

Gondole and the Ponte Rialto

After getting our faces decorated for a bargain 7euros, we set off through winding streets, across little squares and over more bridges than I’ve ever seen to get to the Ponte Rialto and eventually Piazza San Marco. Everything is so cute and pretty, and looks exactly like the films and photographs that we’d seen so many of, and added to that the multitude of weird and wonderful costumes, dresses and most importantly masks, made it quite surreal wandering round. 

To our pleasant surprise, the signs did lead us to the right places and we didn't get lost once, mainly because we didn't have any plan of where we wanted to go, which I think is definitely the best way to visit a city like Venice. And despite the dull sky and occasional shower, it was possibly the best trip I've been on so far in Italy...and the fact that we didn't make it out to any of the islands in the lagoon gives us the perfect excuse to come back again!