Venice - a.a. photo
1. Unmissable,
unique, romantic and unforgettable, with its riot of colors and
boats… Like something from a fairytale come to life
2. Walking
the tourist-free streets in the evening, lingering on the bridges
amid the mystic atmosphere
3. Even getting lost here in a joy
4.
Good public safety, even in the evening, in a maze of car-free
streets
5. Taking the number 1 or number 2 vaporetto up or down
the Canale Grande and admiring the buildings on either side
6. The
Tintoretto paintings in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco (entry €10)
7.
The experience of watching a performance of Don Giovanni at the
Teatro La Fenice opera house
8. The huge number of sights at the
Doge’s palace
9. Escaping the tourist crowds in the marvelously
atmospheric Cannaregio district, and indeed getting out of the main
tourist streets as often as possible!
10. The fact that it’s now
forbidden to feed the pigeons in St Mark’s square (they even used
to sell bird food on the square!)
11. The spectacular whirl and
color of the Venice Carnival, and the wonderful masks you can bring
home as souvenirs
12. Outside of St Mark’s Square the city
wasn’t as expensive as we’d expected
1. Hardly any locals
– almost everyone is a tourist, and the crowds can be unbearable on
the Rialto and at St Mark’s Square, while there are long queues at
museums and palaces
2. Often expensive (especially at restaurants)
the emptying of tourist wallets is a fine art here
3. It’s
forbidden to sit down on a step in St Mark’s Square, while the
outrageous prices in the restaurants and cafés on the square mean
that sitting there is also out of the question
4. I don’t like
pigeons in these numbers (particularly because of certain defecatory
consequences) and even here there’s dog excrement
5. If it rains
here it’s even more of a nuisance than elsewhere
6. A lot of
graffiti (even on the Rialto Bridge!)
7. In summer the city is
pervaded by a rather unpleasant odor
8. Waiters seem overworked,
stressed and unfriendly
9. After about 9 pm almost everything
closes
10. The Vaporettos are usually overcrowded
11. Most of the canals have grey, dirty water, and we saw some rat corpses
12. Venice is overhyped, visitors usually have exaggerated expectations, so there is some risk of disappointment.
