{"id":1113,"date":"2013-07-18T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2023-05-17T17:44:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T21:44:18","slug":"venice-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/venice-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice, Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flight from Nice to Venice only took an hour, making us feel like we hadn&#8217;t gone very far at all. But once we got into town, it definitely felt like we were in a different country. My husband and I have been to many different parts of Italy, but this was our first visit to the northeast. We spent four nights in a B+B in Mestre, one of the 6 Venetian boroughs.<!--more--><\/p>\n<table align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/images\/canal.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/images\/canals.JPG\" alt=\"Venice\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Everyone knows that Venice is full of canals, yet somehow I was still surprised to discover that there are no roads at all &#8211; everything that would be a street in a typical city is a canal in Venice.<\/p>\n<table align=\"left\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/images\/piazzasanmarco.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/images\/piazzasanmarcos.JPG\" alt=\"Piazza San Marco\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><i>Piazza San Marco,<br \/>from the campanile<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>In addition, having read that it is in danger of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eturbonews.com\/11521\/venice-threatened-new-port\">crumbling into the sea<\/a>, I imagined, absurdly, a tiny island with walkways disappearing into water lapping at the edges. So I was also surprised at the size of Venice &#8211; it took a good 45 minutes to walk from one side to the other.<\/p>\n<table align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/images\/grandcanal.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/images\/grandcanals.JPG\" alt=\"Grand Canal\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\"><i>Grand Canal<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Venice is a beautiful city and thanks to the omnipresent water, there are amazing photos to be taken around every turn. However, the one major drawback is the rudeness of the locals. As I said, we have traveled all over Italy (and Europe), and never have we been treated so shabbily &#8211; it was far worse than anything I&#8217;ve ever experienced in Paris. The Venetians were utterly disdainful and contemptuous, particularly in the very touristy areas. 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