Venice is also called the city of love, romance, water, architecture and more! I had no idea what to expect there and I was completely taken aback seeing the entire city surrounded by water, water and more water everywhere!!! It has a group of islands around such as Lido, Murano etc, all of which are part of Venice. We landed at the train station and looked for a taxi to the hotel but figured that the only mode of transport there are boats! hmmm...it was really interesting, especially the street lights in water :) It took us 45 mins or more to reach Lido island... I kinda got bored in a day travelling back n forth on the boats to the city. Everyone there has his/her own private boats instead of cars/bikes and you can see them all out on the sea during weekends....
The next day morning we set out to explore the small city. We went to St.Mark's Square where we checked out St.Mark's Basilica. The weather was perfect, though it got too sunny towards noon. We checked out the surrounding places, the shops, markets and went for lunch. Our stint with the pastas and pizzas started here and we ate just that and ONLY that for the next 10 days!!!!!
We then went to the famous Rialto Bridge and took the Gondola ride from there which lasted about 30 mins. We also saw the Grand Canal and various small canals through the gondola ride which was a lovely experience and completely worth it! Though expensive, gondola ride is something that you should not miss if you visit Venice.
We went back to the Lido island and visited the beach in the late evening. The sun sets around 9.30pm during summer so the days are long and sunny and hardly any night life in this city. We had planned 2 full days and nights in Venice but figured that there is nothing much to do in the city! So we cut short the trip and headed towards Florence the next day....
Final thoughts .... Whenever I visit a city I usually end up thinking if I can see myself living there at some point in life. Paris, Interlaken, Luzern are places which I surely wouldn't mind going back to...Venice is definitely a gorgeous city, ancient, with lot of history, beautiful churches, buildings etc and very different but I definitely wouldn't want to go back, forget living there! I'll get depressed seeing water all around the place, day in day out! But it surely is one city you would want to see in your lifetime 'coz it's different ;-)
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