.::. Venice .::.

On hindsight, I loved Venice. It's beautiful and all, but I felt it was overrated when I was there. It was really tourisy and expensive, only tourists stay there these days. Most people who work there stay across the bridge, at Mestre. It's quite sad though, because most houses there are empty, owned by rich people who only come to holiday during the summer. Normal people will not be able to afford houses in Venice.

It isn't that big and you can cover almost everything in a day. We only spent about half a day there, but it was sufficient. We took a boat-taxi from the town to the main square where the main sights were, and it cost us like 5.50Euros for that 20minute boat ride. In short, everything is extremely expensive.



You probably can't leave Venice without a ride on the gondolas. We struggled for sometime before going on it, simply because it's REALLY expensive. It was about an hour's ride, through many small canals. At least the boatman helped us take a nice picture in the middle of the main canal.

We were on the main bridge, which was in the first picture.

Venice is post-card beautiful. I loved walking through the very narrow streets. It's like a maze, because the roads and buildings are not straight and not all of them have bridges for you to pass. Sometimes, it's a dead-end. Joey was the one navigating with the map, while I snapped away. I like the feel of the place, yet we agreed that we will not want to stay any longer.

It's definitely worth a short visit, for it's so unique, building a whole city on the sea. No roads, no traffic lights, no cars. Not to mention that it's really beautiful too. Gotta visit it before it really starts sinking!