R.I.P Venice, Italy

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I've been to both Venice, Italy and The Venetian in Las Vegas. Go to the Venetian; you can still have the gondoliers sing to you, it stinks less and they deal with drunks better.
 
what a soggy, greasy, ill-mannered mess!
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Mofo said:
I've been to both Venice, Italy and The Venetian in Las Vegas. Go to the Venetian; you can still have the gondoliers sing to you, it stinks less and they deal with drunks better.
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But swing by Paris Paris first and get a 3' tall Eiffel tower full of booze for the gondola ride.
 
fordman84 said:
But swing by Paris Paris first and get a 3' tall Eiffel tower full of booze for the gondola ride.
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I've done this! Never have I spent much actual time in Paris, but I definitely walked through a couple times and bought that stupid thing. Once I tried to trade my stack of street corner hooker 'trading cards', but the vendor didn't go for it.
 
rsw626 said:
Been there. It's very overrated.

In most countries a flooded city that stank of shit would be considered a disaster, not some crown jewel.
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I loved Venice. The architecture and detail into what they built is jaw dropping.

Would hate to see it be destroyed.
 
Wild Turkey said:
I loved Venice. The architecture and detail into what they built is jaw dropping.

Would hate to see it be destroyed.
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I loved Venice, as well and, like you, found the architecture extraordinary.
Moreover, northern Italian food doesn't exactly suck.
I had been told how it stank, but I guess I got lucky.
Even though I was there in the summer, when one would think the any smell would be particularly strong, I didn't notice anything.
Maybe it's because I had been told it was so bad, so was expecting it to be disruptively, "get me out of here, I don't care how beautiful it is" bad, so short of that, it didn't seem noticeable. I don't know. I do know walking along the canals enjoying an Italian Ice was pretty idyllic.
 
ukfanfrombirth(cali cat) said:
I loved Venice, as well and, like you, found the architecture extraordinary.
Moreover, northern Italian food doesn't exactly suck.
I had been told how it stank, but I guess I got lucky.
Even though I was there in the summer, when one would think the any smell would be particularly strong, I didn't notice anything.
Maybe it's because I had been told it was so bad, so was expecting it to be disruptively, "get me out of here, I don't care how beautiful it is" bad, so short of that, it didn't seem noticeable. I don't know. I do know walking along the canals enjoying an Italian Ice was pretty idyllic.
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I was there in the summer also and it smelled like roses compared to Baton Rouge.

I love the food in Northern Italy but the stars are the Italian wines and I never had a bad glass the whole time I was there. We spent 2 days in Venice and 8 in Rome and I wished we had planned more time in Venice. We didn't get to Florence but I've heard great things.

Next summer we are going to Belize and after that, we are going to Croatia so maybe we will get back someday. When we became empty-nesters we decided it was time to final travel so the goal is 10 tips in 10 years to start. So far we have done Italy and Costa Rica (man I love CR!).

Rome taught me while the big historical cities are amazing they aren't overly relaxing so our list moved to more "relaxing" locales.
 
Once that big glacier in Antarctica finishes melting many places will be fucked.
 
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