Venice....

As cliche as this is, words can not describe the beauty that Venice possesses! The entire place is a labyrinth with streets that look like alleys and a walkway that is seemingly always filled with tourists. All kinds of stores, stands and restaurants line the street and so many of them are filled with the glass and masks that Venice is so famous for. The masks are every color and style you can imagine and many have elaborate feathers, lace, fabric, etc. designed all over them. The glass is beautiful and colorful and formed into so many different shapes! There are glasses, paper weights, animals, perfume bottles, jewelry of all sizes. We walked for hours all around the city getting lost and seeing all the different Piazzas, the Palazza Ducale. The bridges and small sidewalks all along the canal are all the entrances to either residences or even more stores. The houses along the canal are decorated with clothes lines and colorful paint and beautiful roofs. While we were walking through the market we also had the opportunity to see a parade walk through with so many young girls and boys dressed in amazing pirate looking costumes. The only things that I had any issue with the the amount of people all over the city. It is incredibly tourist-y and so many different languages are being spoken by groups of people all around you. Also there is a fairly steep sitting charge at almost all of the restaurants so even if you are buying something, its going to cost you to sit at their tables and eat their very expensive but tasty food.