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To get in the mood I've been looking at my Venice pictures from 2 years ago. Stay tuned for more photos later.
A gondola on the Grand Canal.
Here's how the "streets" look.
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Everything comes into Venice via boat and in the early morning they bring in the goods and unload with handcarts.
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This was a shot thru a window at their pizza offerings that day. Yum!
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A typical canal and bridge.
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Another canal but this one seemed to be a "parking" area for gondolas.
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I stayed on the island of Murano so took the vaporetto back and forth. Some days it was quite foggy.
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The famous Rialto Bridge spanning the Grand Canal.
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St. Marks Square.
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Love those gondolas!
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I never did find out what this statue was for - it was near Venice, in the lagoon, on my trip from Murano to Fondamente Nuove.
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This guy was in the Doge's Palace and was for people to put information into - kind of a post office for tip offs!
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Love the mask shops!
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Some baker was quite clever making these breads into faces.
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This was a police boat on the Grand Canal.
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