| Page Views: 981 Last Visit to Venice: February, 2004 | Carnevale di Venezia by sniem - last update: Feb 23, 2004 |
| Beautiful masks at San Marco |
My trip to Venice somehow left me with mixed feelings. No doubt it's a beautiful city and surely worth a visit, but it didn't catch me like Rome, Florence and other italian cities. I think the main reason is that I felt 100 % like a tourist, something I've never experienced before in Italy. Just everyone there seems to be either a tourist or working for the tourist business.
And everything was so expensive, eating, shopping and even public transport. Prices for clothes were about double from Rome where I went 2 weeks earlier, I'm glad I did my shopping there :-))
Maybe I should go there again at some other time of year and not at the beginning of Carnival, I don't even want to think about the crowds on the main Carnival weekend. Someone told me that they make the streets "one way" to handle the crowds. |
|  | I loved these small quiet canals far away from the Canale Grande and the tourists. |
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| Pros: | "Very unique, beautiful spots" | | Cons: | "Too many tourists! Expensive!" |
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SPW Sat Mar 27, 2004 03:14 UTC
Interested in your comment "feeling like a tourist" in Venice: I think it must be a hard lace tohave a sense of belonging. Your Carnevale photos are wonderful. |
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