Pigeons in San Mark's Square.
They actually encourage the tourists to feed them so they're everywhere!
Padlocks of love on the Academia Bridge.
It is modelled on the famous and romantic bridge in Paris where people come from near and far to write their names on a padlock and fasten it to the bridge bonding their love forever, or until somebody comes with bolt cutters...... However, this Venetian bridge is so chockers full of locks because there is a man selling them. You can buy a shiny new padlock and he will even lend you a marker pen to write your names on it.
It sort of takes the romance away.
Boats boats boats everywhere. Big water buses, medium sized water taxis and little gondolas all sharing the same water ways. There are crazy drivers who show little regard for the other boats and gondolas around them. There doesn't appear to be a speed limit and yet they all move fluidly in and out of the canals without incident! We ask our gondolier if there were many accidents and he said that the local people knew the waterways and each other inside and out and therefore didn't have a problem, but when foreigners try and manoeuvre their boats around, they are the masters of disaster!
Finding the perfect Venetian mask.
When you set yourself this task, let me tell you people, it is jobs on!
Hanging out on the Rialto Bridge over the Grand Canal.
Why not?
Going for a ride in a gondola.
It really is something that you MUST do when in Venice.
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