Love

I'd heard before I left that there were two responses to visiting Venice: people who fell in love with it or people who felt it was overrun with tourists, smelly, and overrated. I feared I'd fall into the second category, but I'm happy to report I'm firmly in the first. I love Venice. I find it charming, and historic, and touristy (in a good way). Yes, piazza San Marco is crowded with tourists (as is most of that area), but it's easy to escape the worst of the crowds and find what makes the city so appealing.

Today we toured churches, and tomorrow is our museum day. Both days will include lots of wandering around, finding random streets, canals, cafes, plazas, etc. we also took the Rick Steve's Grand Canal boat tour today, with our water bus happily missing all of the smaller taxis, gondolas and private boats in its way. It's definitely a well used canal!

Tonight, we got to participate in the Worlds Largest "Cheers" sponsored by Aperol. Drinks were terrible but experience was fun.

Ciao!