never gets old.

After the romantic gondola (which you can bargain down from 100 to 50 euro if you are savvy and cool like us) all there is left to do on the small island Venice (literally) is eat, walk around, look in a store of beautiful glass crafts, look in a store of incredible masks, cross one of the 2000 mini bridges, and repeat.

But it's all so beautiful the pattern just never gets old.





The gondola men are all buds. Some charge extra for singing and commentary tour (again, not if you are savvy and cool like us). They yell "OW-AY" whenever they come up to a turn in the narrow canals so that the Venetian version of Titanic can be avoided.


The glass is famous from the nearby island of Murano.


You are literally surrounded by thousands of masks as you walk down the streets in Venice but you can tell the plastic tourist version from the unbelievable hand made combinations of materials.


Here is the little alley shop with no sign we stumbled upon where I bought my super authentic, hand-made, long-awaited, first of many I hope, Venice Carnival mask from Ivan the mask maker.


It's awesome! You will have to ask me to see :)