Venice March 2011-Full Story

Our final stop on our whirlwind adventure across Europe. By this point we were all overwhelmed with what we've seen and exhausted with how much we have walked. Venice was a stop that we kept debating whether we wanted to go there or not and finally we decided that while we were in Italy we should go and visit it at least once. After our short visit I think we all agreed that it was one of our favorite spots on the entire trip.

We arrived by train to Venice and we immediately found a water taxi to take us to our hotel. The water taxi could only drop us off at a stop and then we had to find our hotel from there. Venice is such an interesting city because there are no streets so no signs or any logical way to find your way around. We had very helpful and hilarious directions from the hotel on how to get there so we followed the directions, such "continue down the alley and then cross over the 2 bridges on your right..." It was so interesting because in the US we are always told to not go down alleys but in Venice that's the way you get around and they are very safe. We eventually found our hotel and loved it! This cute old guy was the landlord and has renovated his house to allow tourists to come stay there. It was a nice place that was so fun to stay there that we can't wait to go back and stay there again.

Once we unloaded our now loaded-down-with-souvenirs luggage we set off to search the city. We found the stop that took us to St. Mark's Square and wandered around there for a while.


Here is a picture of the bell tower in St. Mark's square and then pictures of Venice from the top of the tower.

Here is a picture of us on one of the many bridges in Venice. We walked across so many bridges because there are hundreds of tiny waterways that bridges are all over town. This particular bridge is one that led us to our hotel.

Some pictures by one of the gondola stops in Venice.

Here are some pictures in St. Mark's standing in front of the beautiful buildings.

We are standing in front of the Rialto Bridge. This is probably the most famous bridge in all of Venice.

Everyone refused to go and feed the pigeons in St. Mark's Square and I had some leftover bread from breakfast that morning so I decided that it was a tourists right of passage to feed them so here is a picture of them attacking me!

How can Venice be desribed? It is a city that defies logic with every step. It has an almost magical quality to it that makes you feel like you are walking around in a dream. We have had people ask us our favorite things we saw on our Europe trip, and we will list the big things in the other cities, but when it comes to Venice you can't pinpoint just one thing about Venice because every turn of the corner was a famous landmark. Out of all the places we visited this trip we couldn't stop talking about Venice.

Here is a video that we took that last night in Venice and the last night of the whole trip. What a bittersweet moment that was.

We hope you've enjoyed seeing our pictures and videos from out latest trip to Europe. As you have seen there were so many pictures and videos that it took so long to go through all of them. We loved going again to Europe and taking my parents with us. The greatest thing about traveling is that you can never have the same experience twice and these are memories that we get to keep forever! Thanks for reading!