SO glad I had the opportunity to see Venice with my Mom. We took the train from Central Milano and arrived in Venice after about 2.5 hours. Venice is truly an amazing and unique city with no vehicles, lots of water taxis and lots and lots of tourists to fill them. Very few people actually live in Venice these days because it is so expensive. Those families that can afford to live there have either sold or rented their property to the government for town functions or to support tourism in some way. We went on a 2-hour walking tour which included a gondola ride. The weather was chilly but the sky was clear so definitely a great day to enjoy the city. I loved the gondola ride but our gondolier was a tad rude and refused to serenade us (not exactly like in the movies. :)) Interestingly enough, the couple who ended up on the gondola with us was from Cary, North Carolina...small world.
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| Beautiful Grand Canal |
We had the opportunity to visit a small town right outside of Venice called Murano which is a group of seven islands about 1 mile north of Venice. We caught a water taxi and it was very convenient but in my opinion way too expensive (about $11 each way for about a 15 minute ride). Anyway, Murano is famous for glassmaking and I enjoyed it mostly because it wasn't as crowded with tourists as Venice and I bought some really cute glass jewelry.
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| Mom enjoying the gondola |
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