Venezia

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Get lost in Venice. Just get off the train or the boat and start wandering around and let yourself get lost. Don't worry, you'll eventually find your way back to the water. Of course you will want to see the main attractions: Piazza San Marco, Ponte Rialto, Basilica di San Marco, and the Palazzo Ducale di Venezia. But for at least a few hours, enjoy the beauty and history of Venezia by exploring the side streets and alleys - I promise you will find something wonderfully unexpected.

I hadn't planned to get lost, it just happened. We were enjoying the Piazzo San Marco when it started to rain. Since it was my only day in Venice, I wasn't about to let a few raindrops spoil my adventure. We ducked down to find a bathroom. In Italy you have to pay an attendant in the more touristy areas. Its usually 1 Euro. Look - by the time you find a bathroom, you're too eager to get in the bathroom to argue about a Euro. So once we left the bathrooms, we lost track of the way we came. After trying a few streets, we became even more lost but just at the moment of panic, we came across una chiesa piccola. It was in a small square with a fountain and no one else around. In the craziness of tourists, we find solace. We saw all of the major attractions and I was stunned and awed and deeply moved by them all but the one thing I remember most about that day in Venezia is this little church in the tiny square that was ours alone to enjoy.

So get lost, throw out the map (or stick it in the bottom of the fannypack) and see what you discover nella Venezia!

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Photos

Venezia
The little church we stumbled upon when we got lost.

Venice
The "roads" of Venice.

What
In Piazza San Marco

Piazza San Marco
Just as you enter Piazza San Marco

Two boats passing in the day
Two boats drifting awfully close to each other.