Venice

We stayed in Venice for 2 days and were lost pretty much the whole time. Venice is full of bridges and streets that aren’t named and canals that all look the same. There are tons of tourists and no vehicles so it creates a sense of calmness throughout the town. One day, we set out to see St Mark’s square. We gave ourselves all day to find this square. We knew where it was on our map and somehow we still ended up spending most of our time lost. However, we stopped for lunch for a couple of hours because we got into the wine. We started looking at the map more seriously and decided that the map was wrong, that we were actually in the right place and going in the right direction. I even said outloud “I think this map is wrong” and didn’t give it a second thought. The map was wrong and bridges that were supposed to be in the spots where we were according to the map weren’t there in real life.. neither of us considered that we were on the wrong island but chalked it up to the map being wrong. After a little while of nothing making sense, we finally asked a couple where we were and they told us we had somehow made it to a completely different island and that was why nothing was making sense. That was why on the map it said there were bridges and in real life there weren’t any because we were on the wrong island. After that, Sean and I finally got on the right island, saw St. Mark’s square. What a ridiculous day.
Venice is absolutely gorgeous. The canals and the bridges are beautiful. The buildings are so old. Venice is also completely different then Florence so its good when you are travelling to see both cities because you get to compare them both.