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I awoke this morning to find Venice covered in water. Being a city of islands and canals has a few drawbacks, one of which is occasional flooding (not just when it rains, but also when the tides rise). Still residents seem to have adjusted to the flooding and make-shift bridges quickly sprung up, shop owners went about mopping out water, and enterprising businesses sold rain boots.

Flooding in Piazza San Marco

By noon most of the water had drained away, and I was able to spend the afternoon visiting some more the more famous areas of Venice– Piazza San Marco and the Bridge of Sighs (which was a little less impressive than usual since it’s under construction).…

I arrived yesterday morning in Italy after an easy ferry ride from Croatia. I took the train from Ancona up to Venice and have have been spending the past two days exploring Venice.

Like Amsterdam, Venice is a city of canals. Venice consists of 117 islands connected by bridges and canals to form one city.

Venice Canal

This means, while beautiful, Venice is hard to navigate. Narrow, old streets weave around canals and buildings with seemingly no order.…