Vaporetto ride at night (flickr: lorenzocuppini)
On Day 2, before we went out to dinner, we spent a couple of hours doing a vaporetto (water bus) tour on the Grand Canal. This is a great budget alternative to the traditional gondola ride. (Riding the vaporetto costs less than two euros, while a gondola ride costs over 100 euros. )
All we had to do was hop on the #1 vaporetto and ride it all the way down to the end of the line, which happened to be a couple of stops past St. Mark’s Square. Then we got off and hopped on one coming back.
It was beyond belief to ride down the Grand Canal with it all lit up at night. It was a beautiful, warm evening and we were lucky enough to get seats outdoors at the front, the very first seats. We were sitting there, our arms on the railing, motoring along the Grand Canal, looking at all the amazing buildings all lit up, watching the other boats going by. It was absolutely incredible. Words cannot adequately describe it.
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