Dead Ends

Venice is an amazing city, a unique city, a beautiful city. With that said, it is also a very touristy and expensive city and I was content with only spending the day there. The city layout and canals and old architecture are so different from anything in the States and even Europe. We arrived in Venice around 6:00 in the morning and had to kill some time before anything was open, and the station's luggage lockers were out of order so we were forced to carry our packs with us all around the city. In addition, it was an overcast day with some showers (1 of 2 rainy days on the trip). We walked and walked all day... back tracking and seeing the same things over and over. The craziest part of it, are the dead ends... some with walls or buildings at the end but even more with water. I guess the water access points aren't always considered dead ends, as there are many boats cruising the canals, but for us they were always dead ends. It started to become comical as we were trying to get from point A to point B but were constantly trumped by the unpredictable maze that is Venice. You might say a map would help and it did but it show everything that is really there (at least the one we had didn't).  We checked out St. Marks and saw the city from the top of the bell tower, an incredible view to say the least. We got pizzas and wine a hole-in-the-whole place and got ripped off for internet usage. It was another great day in Europe!