Venice In Review

There were lovely parts, but they can be enjoyed quite nicely without subjecting yourself to accomodation in the heart of the action. I'd advise anyone planning to go to Venice to stay on one of the other islands like Murano or Pellestrina and just take the vaporetto into town. Our hotel had wonderful staff, but was very hard to find down a tiny little alley, which was less than an umbrella wide. The photo is late evening after all the cruise ship passengers had gone home and on the day of a national train strike.

The Grand Canal was very grand and one of my favourite things was to ride the vaporetto around and just look at the scenery.

The romance just wasn't there for me I'm afraid.