Amy and I got our small slice of the amazing race, after our failed entry earlier in the year. We entered the amazing race but never heard back so we unexpectedly decided to create our own challenge. At 4.30pm on day two, our final day in venice, we decided we had to ride through the canals on a Gondola. We knew we couldn't afford the private trip so our only option was a shared cruise. This was fine with us though. We turned up to the ticket office at the train station and got told the last shared gondola ride was leaving at 5pm, at this stage it was 4.35pm. 25 minutes, thats fine. However the gondola left from St Marks square, the exact opposite side of Venice to the train station where we were. The lady told us it was a 45 minute walk and we wouldnt make it, I told her shes gota be joking itll only take us 25min, HA! 24minutes and 36 seconds later we turned up the meeting point, exhausted but we made it, we ran through crowds we sprinted like it was a race, but we made. What terrible place to be in a rush, Venice is over crowded. But we made it.