The beautiful city of Venice did not disappoint. We arrived early in the afternoon with a few hours to kill walking around this beautiful city. We proceeded over the first bridge by the train station and straight into the maze that is the streets of Venice. A map would have been a good idea but it is much more fun without one. We wandered throug...

When we arrived in Venice, we were really surprised to find that it was just an ordinary City. We were expecting to get off the train to see the famous canals, but they just weren't there. As it turned out, our ticket had told us to get off a stop early. We found another train, jumped on, and ten minutes later, walked out of the new station and ...

What can we say? Venice proved to be every traveller's dream! We saw San Marco piazza and including the Basilica and the Venetian (Doge) Palace. We also went to the Rialto twice. The rest of our short stay was spent soaking up life on water (ie. no cars, no roads!) and imagining a dream life here!

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On the way to Venice we had a quick stop in Verona - you know "In fair Verona where we lay our scene" ... Romeo and Juilet ... well even though there was no Romeo or Juliet Verona has fully capitalised on the whole thing - there is Juliets tomb, Romeos house etc etc but we only went to Juliets balcony, underneath there was a statue of Juliet, ap...