Out of the Villa at 7am for a train ride into Firenze, discovering that we wouldn't be able to catch a train to Venezia until 2 hours later. Wandered around and had some food, then hopped on the train for a two and a half hour trip that seemed like an hour. Arrived at Venice about 1.15pm, walked out of the train station and were immediately met with water, beautiful building and many tourists. We noticed the slightly different food, sweets and pastries immediately (being a different region) and enjoyed walking the narrow streets towards St Marks square, crossing over little canals as we went. There were so many shops, some full of beautiful hand painted ceramic masks, ranging from really tiny to absolutely huge - all stunning and full of gold, silver or bright colors.
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