"Venice" a Venice Travel Page by steventilly

I recently visited Venice again, this time for two weeks. As you can imagine, in this time I built up quite a knowledge of Venice and its surroundings, and not just the usual tourist hotspots. I hope these pages give a good refelction of what I have seen and done in Venice now.
A lot of people just don't realise what it is with Venice. By a lot of people, I really just mean those who haven't been yet. Once you've been, well then you realise what it is. You get other cities, say Bruges, fine beautiful city, and sometimes called "The Venice Of The North". Same with Amsterdam. In England, Bourton-on-the-Water is called "Venice Of The Cotswolds". Why - well because these places have canals. So people think they know what Venice is like, because it has Canals too. But in Venice there are NO ROADS. Everything is totally on water. Transport is by water, deliveries by water, garbage collection by water (OK, there's always the option of walking) but there are NO ROADS! It's a shock for a society based so entirely around cars to see a place totally devoid of them. It certainly took me by surprise!