I’ve been in Venice for about twelve hours and I love it. There’s one path that runs from the train station to the Piazza San Marco that is basically lined with tourist traps. Yawn. But what makes Venice cool is if you deviate from the path by just a block you’re totally screwed. Where are you? Who knows? Even having a map doesn’t help, since every street is about two feet wide and half a block long. No exaggeration. And the streets are made of water! Whose genius idea was that?
Obviously, I left the path. So many times I ended up on the wrong bridge, seeing the right bridge less than 20 feet away, and I had to walk a quarter mile to get back to it. Brilliant. I’m going to get a summer home here just so I can laugh at all the lost tourists. But I did discover the mask shop that made the masks for Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. Forget the tourist junk – I got the good stuff.
Oh, and the gelato here costs half as much as in Florence. I love this city.
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If you have any time to spare, you should try to check out Bologna, even if just for a few hours. It’s a very cool city with almost none of the tourist crowd and related tourist traps of Florence and Venice.
pictures?