When flights are cheap, the world is your destination!

Both me and my son jumped at the chance to have a day trip over to Venice, Italy. £37.50 each return from Stanstead! Hell of a bargain, who could say no to that?

The day started at 7am. We headed up to Harlow. Had a breakfast, got some Euros and parked up at the train station. Jumped on the train and headed to Stanstead.

Of course after checking into the airport and going through all the security we headed to the nearest pub! Two pints later we nearly missed our flight, but thankfully made it just in time!

Finally arrived in Italy. Not a clue of what we were going to look at or do. Just jumped in the nearest taxi and headed to Venice. No plan, no organisation, just pure adventure!

Stumbled across an ice cream shop. Very friendly clerk in there. Perhaps the owner, I’m not entirely sure. Ordered our ice creams and tried to pay. No luck on the card because my wonderful bank blocked it, but thankfully we had cash. Smallest amount we had was a €20 note. €16 back in change with a warning to be careful using cash. There were a lot of pickpockets about. Oh great!

A couple hours later and it was dinner time. If I was travelling to Italy, I wanted to try authentic Italian pizza! So that’s what we did. We ordered two pizzas and had half of each. I think because we were in Venice and there was obviously a good market for fish products, most of the options had fish on them. I certainly ain’t eating a pizza with fish on it!

We had the typical chorizo pizza and a Margherita pizza. Easy enough. Now, I’m used to the typical type of pizza you get in the UK. Specifically deep pan pizza. This was nothing of the sort. The base was thin, crispy and tasty. It was fresh tomatoes, great cheese and all around bloody nice!

After dinner we wandered around some more. I had a great time. I will be doing this again. Nothing beats experiencing something great which is unplanned. Here’s to the next adventure!