Venice by night
It is the first time this has happened to me, honestly. I am embarrassed.
I failed to find skiing on a trip.
Granted, this trip was more difficult than most. Venice is a hot place in the summer. Due to some other travel and work I was unable to spare extra days or even hours to do the detour via the summer ski places in northern Italy. And the two days that I was there were filled with meetings from early morning to dusk.
But still. All I had after driving around a couple of hours was after-ski in the hotel bar with my miniskis:
After-ski (but without the skiing)
I did have a great plan, however. Last week I found some snow from the Matinkylä indoor ice rink. My idea was to find an indoor ice rink near Venice, gather some snow to plastic bags, drive to Venice and park my car at Piazzale Roma when they are empty at 3AM. And then I could have spread the snow on one of the small bridges nearby, and skied on the bridge.
But I failed to find an ice rink. WTF? Not a single open-in-the-summer ice rink in the area? I can only conclude that Matinkylä tops Venice as a tourist destination, if it comes down to availability of snow and ice. Who cares about those canals anyway?
Driving to Venice on the rental Fiat 500. Cheap, small, and very nice!
Photo credits (c) 2012 by Jari Arkko
This article was originally published in the Planetskier Blogspot article series. Suomenkielisen version tästä artikkelista "Tehtävä Venetsiassa" voi lukea myös täältä.
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