It is too hot! The humidity is ridiculous! I was praying for rain today to help clear it (and to make good use of those umbrellas I fetched), and luckily those prayers were answered but it has made the humidity even worse! I would quite like to be back in England for an hour or so to cool down a bit.
Anyway, back to the story of my day.
I didn’t get to enjoy a nice long lie-in like I had planned because Venice has a church on every street and unfortunately these churches all have bell towers. The Venetians love their bells.
But I didn’t really mind it so I don’t want to sound like I’m complaining!
I got to the PGC at 11 and I guarded the steps up to the terrace for two hours. I thought this might be quite a boring job but I actually enjoyed it. I got to see all of the crates after crates off champagne and wine go up, and the amazing food and beautiful flowers! The waiters and waitresses all had bow ties and looked really cute. I’m sad I wasn’t allowed to go to the party.
So yes, my job was to stop the curious public from trying to get up the stairs. I had a few sneaky people who tried to run up when I looked the other way and one man pretended to be part of the atering staff but he couldn’t fool me!
One woman tried to walk up and I told it was private but that didn’t stop her from coming back every twenty minutes to try again.
I also had one man shouting at me demanding that I let him up but I had to explain that the upstairs is never opened to the public so we weren’t doing him any great injustice.
Every Sunday is ‘Spritz Sunday’ where the PGC gives out free spritz to everyone so you would’ve thought that that was a big enough distraction from what was going on up on the terrace but obviously not.
At 1 I had my lunch with my new German best friend Robert, Alexander and Nicole and we went to Corner Pub and I had a cheeky spritz and a toasted cheesy tomato pizza sandwich thing.
We finished our lunch quite early so the Capi asked me to help give out some brolly’s to the important people going upstairs ( I can’t remember if I explained who they were or not but they are the sponsors, directors and board members of the PGC). They were all so lovely J
Most of them were English and spoke very very posh English. They were calling each other ‘old sport’.
I made some joke about being English and having an umbrella which went down rather well. I really can’t remember what I said though.
Then at 2 I had the important job of holding the downstairs door open to the V.I.P’s but they had all gone upstairs by that time so I got to abandon my job early and finish for the day. Woo!
Me, Holly and Lola then went back to the Corner Pub for some spritz and olives before going to watch REGATTA HISTORICAAAA!
It was quite cute to begin with because people were dressed up in costumes but after seeing 10 boats the other fifty or so were rather boring. They just did the same thing; row a bit then stick their oars in the air whilst everyone clapped.
Here are some pictures for your enjoyment. As you can see the weather wasn’t that great which was a shame.
I had an ice-cream on the way home. It was Tiramisu and Crème Caramel.
I have’t been doing much this evening but I had another little Italian lesson with Marina. I was trying to explain to her what a gherkin was and it took so long! It’s actually quite a hard thing to describe.
Oh and our celeb of the day was Vittori Sgarbi who is a very influential art critic and has lots of power in the Venice Beinnale and other exhibitions. He was very upset that he wasn’t on the list to get in to the party.
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