For the first time in about a year I am eating McDonald's. How else could we tip our hats to our beloved imperialist mother country all the way from Italy? Unfortunately, there are no fireworks shops we've found so no sparklers for us. This is by far the classiest McDonald's I've ever seen, done up in a classy Italian style, of course. They are even playing a dance music set to keep things lively. And the Royal with Cheese... IT EXISTS!!
Anyway, back to Venice. This is decently sized pedestrian city built on a ridiculous series of canals and waterways. Quite literally, there are no automobiles. Any situation you can think of within a single city where one would be necessary, just replace it with a boat. The public transit system is made of water bus routes. Hotel shuttles from the airport are boats. Even the DHL delivery "trucks" are boats. It's pretty cool!
There really wasn't anything in particular we meant to see in this city, so we've just been walking around the tiny alleyways and streets seeing all the sights and attempting to avoid tourists at places like St. Marco's Square. It's nice to just be among the Italians when we walk. Ther conversation are far less distracting than those in a language we actually understand.
Since there really isn't too much going on here, I'll spare the long blog post this time since the last two were so huge, and save all those words for the awesome eastern countries coming up.
Tomorrow night we leave Italy for good and head to Budapest, Hungary.
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