Once in a while, you end up in the end of a street where at some point another road begins.
and the roadway is of course a water channel
This is a crossroad.
Hi! I am Ariel! Every time I travel I feel like I just arrived in a parallel universe
in a culture that I couldn't have imagined before.
I am fascinated by this concept of "parallel reality" that each of us has, especially if we live our lives in very different geographical areas.
How would it be if instead of streets you would only had water channels
instead of cars - boats
and instead of traffic lights, you had common courtesy?
Well, that's Venice!
It`s Sunday, 10AM
and I'm a little embarrassed to carry my luggage around here because it`s so quiet
and I am making a lot of noise and people live around here.
A lot of tourists
It`s very cold.
Venice is unique. There is no other place like this in this world
The city was built on 117 islands, connected through approximately 400 bridges.
I came to Venice with a few questions in my mind and no real plan
only the desire to explore the place by foot as I am seasick
You can find this on a street or whatever this is that they call a street.
That tower is so crooked!
I have no idea where I am but these walls are so narrow.
I had this curiosity whether every local has a boat, as every person in Bucharest has two cars.
Every time I travel I think about how it would be if I lived here. Meaning the place I am traveling to at that moment.
I look at the locals, at their houses, I observe their cars.
Oh well, how would it be if you lived here?
This is the house of a regular person
Who when they leave their house, they see a tree and then…a boat.
How would it be to live here? To park your scooter there, climb the stairs and then go home.
What a great life!
Then I asked myself
How would it feel to be a local in such a touristic place and so disconnected from the exterior world.
….and last but not least what`s up with global warming and Venice?
I knew that it was going to be hard to find a Romanian who lived in Venice
who could answer all of my questions
so I just hoped that in 3 days spent here to make as many friends as I can and thus I could get more info.
Otherwise at first glance Venice seems the most romantic place to go on your own - as I did.
It is so weird to walk on the streets and see couples everywhere around.
And I was alone, just me and my camera.
Another thing I noticed is that the "locals" are not necessarily Italians.
Venice seems a diverse city like London or New York or another big city in the world
A city that gathers people from all around the world.
From the outside this may seem odd and sad
but when you get there you realize that it is something natural. In Venice there is only room for tourism.
It's 7pm-7ish. I came in my room because it is too cold outside and I feel like I have no more strength to explore
but I have managed to get the number of a person who has been living in Venice for a while. A Romanian!
Secondly, I even got the number of the rabbi here in Venice
In Venice the rules are simple. Everything happens on water and bicycles are as forbidden as drugs.
And when I say everything, I really mean everything.
And when things do not travel on water, things go around on big trollies filled with packages.
So that's why in Venice you can see people pushing around very large strollers.
Urban transportation, taxis, Uber, police, firefighters, ambulance
everything happens on water, channels and boats.
After a very chaotic first day of exploring the city
the following day I realized I need to be more organized, at least in my own thoughts.
In the sense that I wanted to pay more attention to what people are doing around me
and not necessarily what the city looks like.
But as the water level began to rise quickly, people started walking on metal scaffolding
and all I could feel was a constant fear of the high water level.
Wandering around Venice I started noticing something very interesting: a lot of Asian families
They didn't have the cameras with them and they were actually locals.
I passed by a child at some point who seemed to be returning from school,
he was Asian and he was eating gelato when the temperature outside was 5 Celsius.
And if that's a great adjustment to the local culture, I do not know what can be cooler.
Some boring information about Venice:
Half hour Gondola ride costs 80 euros
This cost can be shared with 6 people
But 6 people in a Gondola?
There is also a city tax, if you stay at the hotel - 3.5 euros per night, payable only cash.
That made me think about corruption. I finally paid with cash.
And if you don`t want to bump into tourists and bad and expensive food, you just have to get away from the central area
and move towards the outskirts of the city.
If you enter a place and everybody is speaking the local language,
that's a sign you are in the right place.
This is the moment of truth.
Hello, Morning, my name is Ariel…
I have your number from…
Thanks a lot!
You can meet new people just by making some calls!
Venice is an atypical city however you take it, it is a special city
you either love it or hate it.
I am among those who love it
It's not very easy to live here
Whatever action that usually lasts 20 minutes
here can sometimes take you half of day
because everything has to be transported a thousand times, over and over again
If you want do some cheaper shopping, you have to go Terraferma
To get there you have to go to Piazza de Roma and from there you take the bus to Terraferma
and this way you have already spent half a day on the road.
While I was searching the Rabi I found a woman from Russia who was doing portraits in exchange for money donations.
I found out more about her incredible story and I got a really cool portrait at the end.
Then I found out where I can find the Rabbi.
Afterwards I took my lunch on the streets, it`s cheaper and this is how artists do it.
I found a great restaurant,
the only place I would recommend in Venice, called Gum Gum, a jewish restaurant.
This is so annoying I cannot find the right way.
I do not know how to go around it!
I do not how, but I keep finding empty and silent streets, where you can hear weird sounds.
This is one of that moments.
It is so irritating to try and find a destination in Venice, because the GPS loses its signal
and it is very easy to get lost, everybody is looking at their phones and wandering around
There are no more people, locals, tourists, just pigeons.
In Venice there is a small (jewish) community
of four hundred and fifty people.
We also have a kindergarten
We also have a Minyan, not always, not daily, but we do have one.
This is a big problem also back home, we don't have a Minyan
There are five synagogues...
Five?
We are only using two of them
There is no such place like this
This is a very special place, like they say, Venice is a special city, that's true.
This is how in the course of 72 hours I found answers to all my questions, but I also met three fascinating people.
Venice will never disappear
I mean it will disappear at some point but not very soon. In the end you never know.
So I would recommend you to visit it now while it is above water and not under it
If it were to define Venice as simple as it is ... it's like a great big open-air mall!
I came to Venice without any plans, on my own
and I came back full of energy and appreciation for the people who live there.
And I think this is the idea
when you travel, do it not just for what's to be seen, but for what you'll have to think and feel.
In the end, after 3 days in Venice, my advice would be:
if you want to get anywhere in Venice, do not try to use Google Maps.
1. Follow the "general" direction of your route – You have to know if you are going from north to south
in west or east, like in old times.
2. Look for yellow signs with arrows for bridges - bridges are sometimes hard to find.
The yellow signs are really helpful.
3.Follow locals who are in a hurry, avoiding the tourists.
Follow them and they will find the right way for sure.
Hello everybody!
Thank you for watching our video about Venice!
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