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This was on the train from Geneva, Switzerland to Venice, Italy, traveling along Lake Geneva.

Here we are trying to find our hotel. It was in an alley that we could barely fit our bags into. I had to bust out the MacBook so we could find it. The offices were in one building and the rooms were in another.

After we got a little settled in we left while it was still daylight out. For those of you that don’t know, Venice is built almost entirely on water. There are no cars. Everyone gets around either buy boat or by walking. The streets are too narrow for cars or scooters. So it was quite just about everywhere you went. We never got a chance to ride a gondola but there were everywhere. Venetians didn’t ride the boats unless it was to deliver food and supplies or pick up the garbage. It was a rather small town so walking was never a problem. It was more the navigation. We got lost a few times but the little shops and restaurants made those little mistakes very interesting.

The next day we chose to see some of the famous sites around the city. One of those sites was the rialto bridge. There were only 3 bridges that crossed the Grand Canal and this was the largest. Riddled with shops and restaurants, there had just about everything around this area.

This shop was on the bridge and I just had to stop and stare. Unfortunately though Venice is in Italy so it was mostly Italian soccer garbage

This was the view from on top of the bridge.

The next site we visited was the square. Just one word. HUGE! One of the attractions of this site is the very friendly winged-rats (pigeons). Next to this was an enormous church that we weren’t able to take pictures of. Definitely the largest structures I have ever been in so far other than a sports stadium.

The rest of our time was mainly spent walking around and stepping into little shops. Venice was a great little town, full of nice people and great food. The next city we are visiting is Rome.