Venice is charming! Very touristy, but not in a really cheesy way. All winding stone passages and grand decaying facades. If you want a mask or something made out of glass, this is your spot, but there's also fun stuff here that you wont find elsewhere. Not that I'd want to find any of these masks anywhere else. Yikes.

No where to ride bikes. So many stairs and narrow alleys -- it's a pedestrian city. Walking and boating are the only way to get anywhere. Keep running into people hauling handcarts up and down the stairs. Its easy to get turned around in the maze of streets . . . but not 'lost' really -- nothing is far enough away to really be lost.

I'm glad we came, it's delightful and relaxing.