Venezia

Our hotel, boys room top right (ours out the back)

First taste of Venice, looking for a bus ferry

Making sure the canals are navigable

The lion of Venice, outside Duke's palace on Piazza di San Marco

Beautiful

And I thought it was hard to capture Switzerland! Ha!

Venice is the most visited city in the world (the Italians say) and it is easy to hear many different languages. So many people, everywhere: very tourist oriented. But it is so delightful, beautiful, charming, extraordinary!

At the fall of the Roman Empire, as the Huns Vandals and other violent teenagers swept down from the north, some people moved out onto an island to stay safe. Then, 600 years later, as the island city had grown, it became the maritime capital of the Mediterranean, the centre of commerce, trade and civilisation.

There are so many churches, so little open land. And the water is the road, enchanting.