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Lost is an Understatement in Venice

Written by Ben on July 24, 2006 |

As I write this, I am currently at the European CouchSurfing Collective (a busy schedule has delayed this writeup).

I arrived, late at night, in Venice after an afternoon of train issues. My host, thankfully, found me easily at the San Lucia station. And because cars are not allowed in Venice (except for the northern most parking lot), we walked through the night’s vibrant and lively streets. It was just too bad that I opted to rest up that evening because I was exhausted…

The next morning, I went out for my standard day of exploration, which I found to be a very large undertaking. As I walked around, I found that the maze of streets and alleys turning me around for the entire day. Getting lost is nice, but the scale and magnitude of how lost one can become in Venice compares to nothing I’ve experienced. After one evening fireworks show, I spent two hours winding the night streets trying to get back home (maps and signs where unhelpful).

The upside of my, seemingly, endless wandering was that I found myself taking many more shapshots of the picturesque city– the streets were very inspiring in this respect. So here is just a barrage of pictures: