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Island Hopping in Venice
A quick glance at the map and Venice seems pretty small, but once you add together all the islands and the distances that make up Venice as a whole, it's quite sprawling. Today's outting saw me head north to the islands of Murano and Burano, known for their glass and their lace respectedly. Unsure of how to get to the closest vaporetti stop to this islands, I ended up taking a vaporetti down to San Marco from Rialto before changing vaporetti's. While the ...
Venice Wandering
... Lido, home of the Venice Film Festival. As the waterbus stopped at every stop, it took almost an hour to get there from Rialto, but it was a nice break from the pedestrian and tourist laden Venice proper. There are actually cars and buses on Lido, with very few canals. There's even a seawall you can walk on if you turn left after leaving the waterbus. I tried to find the beach, but as the day was ending, ended up not going as I didn't realize it was just another 5 minute ...
Viva Italia!
... that even as you step out of the train station, you're tempted to whip out your camera before even looking into how to get to your hostel!
It wasn't too hard to buy a vaporetti ticket (water bus), for those 29 and under, get the Rolling Venice card and you'll get a big discount on the 72 hour transport pass (18 euro vs 33). Unfortunately I got off at the wrong stop though and had to double back. Venetian streets are fairly narrow, unless it's a ...
Days 306 to 308 - Romancing the Lagoon
... ancient city.Venezia was home to the exploring (Marco) Polo clan. In its day, the city ruled a huge swath of southern europe extending its influence and trade routes to Turkey, Northern Africa and Spain.
The Venetian tradition of glass blowing continues today and there was a range of tacky to stunning pieces at all price points.
CULTURE:
Venice is a tourist mecca. Without the ability to expand out ('into the burbs') or up (based on ...
Day 2
... on our map that we were in the vicinity of the Campo San Barnaba. If any of you have seen the old movie "Summertime" with Katharine Hepburn, you'll know that this is where Rossano Brazzi's antique shop was located. It's also where Katharine fell into the canal while trying to photograph the shop.
We continued on, wandering through the Dorsoduro area, ending up at the Santa Maria de la ...


