George Kirkwood
Yesterday the group visited the amazing city of Venice. Venice was definitely one of the places on the trip that I was looking forward to the most, and it didn't disappoint, with much of the day spent looking for buildings from Casino Royale and The Italian Job. The day started with Mr Buckingham sending us off in small groups to find the Rialto Bridge, which for my group was more difficult than we had imagined as Venice is the most confusing city I had ever been in. After many pictures had been taken at the Rialto Bridge, the group then left for San Marco square, or so we thought, in fact the rest of the group had gone to get some food from the supermarket, leaving eight of us lost in Venice, we even considered hiring our own gondola to cruise around but thought that Mr Buckingham may not have been impressed if he saw us on the canals after wondering where we had been for 2 hours.
We eventually found the rest of the group in time for a very long speech about the square from Stapleton, and preceded to enter the main Church of Venice, which was incredible, with over 4000 square metres of gold mosaic on the roof. After returning to the train station on a scenic ferry ride through the city, we met up with Mr Smith who had managed to get lost earlier in the day and hadn't seen us for several hours, we think he wasn't really lost and just wanted to explore the city all by himself. We had a couple of hours of free time in the afternoon to get dinner and found a steakhouse that did amazing burgers.
We left Venice in the evening on an overnight train with very cosy sleeping arrangements, and after being woken at 5:30 this morning to get off the train, I find myself being rather tired whilst writing this blog. I think all the boys are looking for a relaxing few days in Beaucaire after a busy week.
