Venice: The City On Water

Venice is honestly one of those places that you see pictures of and hear stories about, but until you go there you don't truly understand the uniqueness of it. The journey to Venice started with making the long drive from Paris, then we had to take a train to a station near the Venice islands, and then we took a water bus to a stop near our hotel. Where else in the world do you take a water bus?!?! Once we got off the water bus we had to trek through the winding sidewalks with our luggage to try and find our hotel. Well like you know Venice has rivers winding all through it, so how do you get over a river. . . . a bridge. So we lugged our luggage up and down probably 10 bridges. That was a work out, but once we found our hotel it was to our great surprise that our hotel was amazing. They put us in our own little wing of the hotel where we had a sitting room joining our three rooms, out bathrooms were amazing, and our beds were so nice. We spent the next to days winding through the city and looking at all the different shops. There is everything that you can imagine from ties with inappropriate pictures to the highest end stores you could imagine, and beautiful Venetian glass. One thing that I didn't expect about Venice was that there are people trying to get you to take a Gondola ride on every bridge and corner of the city. Very annoying and takes away from their attraction

This is the great Rialto Bridge. It was built across the grand canal to be large enough for an armed water army to be able to fit under.



This is San Marco Square. In a city that is crammed and built on 117 different islands this is a huge open square.



Some random pictures around Venice.





And last but not least here we are enjoying our first Gilato. So Delicious!!!