Venice

After having absolutely horrible weather in Cinque Terre we were pretty sure the weather was going to be equally as bad in Venice. We woke up and went outside to see not a cloud in the sky...it was absolutely incredible. Venice is very surreal everything obviously is sinking and sometimes parts are worse than others during high tide. We had to take a water taxi to our hostel and you could see that most of the doors were blocked off because of the water level rising.

It was very hard to follow maps in Venice its like a maze. Every street is like an alley way that goes about 4 stories high so there is no way to look up and see tall buildings to tell you where you are. Basically you just follow little signs to famous Bridges and find your way around.

We had a tour of St. Marks Square and little areas around Venice. We had a quick break for lunch then a boat tour. The boat tour was my favorite part because we got to go around Venice and through little residential canals. It was amazing how those canals are only three feet deep!! We saw many gondala riders and they are so good at steering those long boats...that would be so difficult! Luckily, since it was fall the water didn't smell but I can see how during those hot summer days the water could get pretty stinky.

In the evening we went shopping and got lots of little gifts for friends of Venetian Glass. I tried on like one million rings and many times they would get stuck on my finger! I would panick buy luckily my friend Helen had purell and so I could get it off that way. I don't know how many rings in Venice are smoothered in purell from me ...oops.

I know that I have to come back to Venice because there was not enough time to do a gondola ride...you can't experience Venice fully without one!