* Three days in Venice
* Stayed at Vaniglia e Soriso Guesthouse, a wonderful (and relatively cheap!) guest house run by a nice schoolteacher (Adriano) on the eastern end of the main island (near Lido)
* Stayed at Vaniglia e Soriso Guesthouse, a wonderful (and relatively cheap!) guest house run by a nice schoolteacher (Adriano) on the eastern end of the main island (near Lido)
The Good:
* With its canals and beautiful buildings, Venice is a stunning city
* Happy hours in Venice are fun, with the popular drink being the Spritz (equal parts Prosecco and Aperol with a splash of soda water, garnished with orange and an olive)
* With its canals and beautiful buildings, Venice is a stunning city
* Happy hours in Venice are fun, with the popular drink being the Spritz (equal parts Prosecco and Aperol with a splash of soda water, garnished with orange and an olive)
The Bad:
* The most disappointing thing is the people – there is a clear difference in how locals are treated versus how tourists are treated, most annoyingly in how much things cost at restaurants and bars (including the fact that most restaurants will charge a ~1 euro “cover charge” just for the pleasure of sitting down), with a close second being the general attitude of indifference or disdain that many of the people exude toward the tourists
* Venice is also really expensive – from the hotels to the cost of taking the water taxi system to/from the various sites and different parts of the city
* Because it’s concentrated on such a small piece of land, Venice is also extremely crowded (overrun, really) with tourists.
Get up. Go for run. Shower. Breakfast of cappuccino, croissant, and fruit. See the sites. Lunch. See more. Gelato break. Happy hour. Dinner. Sleep. Repeat. Such is life in Venice. More than just the sites, Venice is about immersing yourself in the European way of life while being surrounded by immense beauty, seemingly half the world’s population, and an almost militant core of locals who hate you. Yes, you.* The most disappointing thing is the people – there is a clear difference in how locals are treated versus how tourists are treated, most annoyingly in how much things cost at restaurants and bars (including the fact that most restaurants will charge a ~1 euro “cover charge” just for the pleasure of sitting down), with a close second being the general attitude of indifference or disdain that many of the people exude toward the tourists
* Venice is also really expensive – from the hotels to the cost of taking the water taxi system to/from the various sites and different parts of the city
* Because it’s concentrated on such a small piece of land, Venice is also extremely crowded (overrun, really) with tourists.
Arriving from the train station, we took the vaporetto (the water bus system) to our hotel. Here are some shots from the water (and one from happy hour with our orange spritz drinks described above, not sure how that got into this series! Indiana Jones aficionados will recognize the structure behind the cocktails as the library Indy goes in where "X" marks the spot in the Last Crusade):
The main site in Venice is San Marco Square, which includes the Basilica di San Marco and its famous gold altar panel:
Also in the square is the Campanile, which Carrie and I went up in for some views of the city:
There’s also this thing, I’ll be honest with you I didn’t get the name of it and, due to the high level of tourists (see second pic), I just wanted to get out of there:
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