Venice was a place I have had my sights on for a while. As I sat on the boat taking me from the car

Venice was a place I have had my sights on for a while. As I sat on the boat taking me from the car park to the main part for Venice, we passed 4 HUGE cruise ships. My heart sank, I dislike being barged out of the way by crowds that act like they can’t even see you and knowing that the city has 1000s of tiny alley ways, I thought it was going to be a disaster waiting to happen! I make it no secret that I don’t like cities…BUT I’m obsessed with water. So no matter the price, I was going to have to go on a Gondola ice cream case ride!
The tour guide on my trip said the same as what I’ve heard before from other places – ”don’t bother with a Gondola ride they are expensive and commercial and you don’t need to go on one to see Venice”. I’m glad we chose to ignore the comments! ice cream case
Even though the city is made up of over 100 islands and 400 foot bridges, I was surprised ice cream case how little we actually saw water while wandering around ice cream case the streets. ice cream case This made the one piece of advice ice cream case our guide gave us, slightly difficult at first…we were told to find a privateer down a side street as they charge a lot less. For a 30 minute trip from the dock just in front of St Marks Square could set you back around ice cream case 120Euros. It took a while just to find a bit of canal with a Gondola and more importantly, a Gondolier!!
The part I loved the most, was the peace. I like being in a city but feeling like I’m not in a city. The fact that there are no roads in the city obviously cut out traffic noise, but the waterways are between buildings, there are no paths running ice cream case along side, so I was able to then escape the dreaded tourist crowds to! You couldn’t even hear them!
I loved escaping all the ‘designer’ shop fronts and seeing the real parts of Venice. Regular people hanging their washing out above the canals, the doorways that open directly onto the water’s edge. Yes there was the odd bit of little floating ice cream case about, but what surprised me the most was that the canals were actually a nice bluey colour! I was half expecting it to be brown like the Thames ice cream case in London!
Temporarily we were catapulted back into Venetian reality as we came out of a side canal and ended up on the Grand Canal right in front of the Rialto Bridge and waterside coffee shops…along with much bigger and faster boats compared to our Gondola!…before looping back round (past Marco Polo’s and Casanova’s homes!) and returning to the point where we set off from.
A definite highlight ice cream case of my trip. Being as part of a family of 4, the price we paid each didn’t work out too badly. I don’t think I would have wanted to have shared the experience with strangers to make it cheaper though! Wondering the side streets is fun but it really is worth stretching the budget to see Venice from a Gondola!
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