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A smell of Venice - avoid this s(t)inking city

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Flag of Italy  Venice, Italy
Saturday, September 22, 2007

A bus and a train took us to Venice today - about an hour all up.  Half an hour in a queue to get a tourist map and we were off. 

Venice was extremely crowded - the crowds can not be understated - but the weather was great.  My over-all verdict is that it was good to visit but I have no desire to ever go back.  It was dirty, rundown, smelly, expensive and crowded.

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