Venice is really a matter of choice. I first went for about 10 hours back in 1995 as a train stopover, getting so much bad press from friends about how it was filled with tourists, was filled with sellers of tacky junk, how the canal smelled, etc.
Well, they were mostly right (except about the canal smell, actually -- and this despite a travel partner who fell in it at the time, but that's another story). But I still really liked it. I went back last year and loved it for a variety of different reasons.
It's definitely the kind of place people love or hate.
Oh, and for all the talks of tourist saturation on Venice -- you really only have to walk a couple of blocks towards a dead end between canals and you can wind up where there are absolutely no tourists... within minutes of just about anywhere.
Well, they were mostly right (except about the canal smell, actually -- and this despite a travel partner who fell in it at the time, but that's another story). But I still really liked it. I went back last year and loved it for a variety of different reasons.
It's definitely the kind of place people love or hate.
Oh, and for all the talks of tourist saturation on Venice -- you really only have to walk a couple of blocks towards a dead end between canals and you can wind up where there are absolutely no tourists... within minutes of just about anywhere.
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