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There are people who take the train and then there are just plain annoying “train people”.  On our way to Venice from Florence I go to the bar car where a lot of people are lined up waiting for food.  A fairly large, middle aged woman (presumably from Minnesota) is holding up the line trying to find the Italian word for Mayonnaise because she doesn’t understand that a ham and cheese in Italy doesn’t come with condiments.  Everyone in the car is yelling, finally she leaves.  She gets back to her seat and hands her husband the sandwich.  He asks for the Mayo and she explains that she didn’t get any.  The husband is visibly disappointed, the wife defeated.  Train people.   

One step out of the train station and you are bombarded by first the amount of tourists, and second, the beauty.  Yes, the canals of Venice are really that amazing.  Who would have known?  The first question I was hit with (while staring at a bridge that goes over the Grand Canal) was how are we going to get to our hotel with our 130lb of luggage?  There is no way I was going to spend the next couple hours trying to navigate Venice after failing in both Rome and Florence.  Luckily we found a water taxi and he took us to our front (or is it back door) of our hotel, San Cassiano, located on the Grand Canal.

The San Cassiano did us well, hooking us up with a Grand Canal view suite complete with sitting area, day bed, and chandelier.  After a few moments taking it all in from our windows above the water we headed out, toward the Rialto Bridge.  I don’t believe I have ever traveled 100 feet and been lost.  I felt lost around every corner in Venice it was impressive to say the least.  Armed with 4 maps and an iPhone with GPS was no help. 

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