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As I already told you in previous articles, we spent a week in Venice. What we did was visit in the morning from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. and then we worked from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. It was a two-week trip in total to try working and traveling at the same time.
Venezia can be seen in a couple of days without visiting museums. I visit museums if they are free because I think they all should be. If I must pay, I then decide if I enter or not; above all because if one sticks to a marathon of museums, the brain ends up exhausted and you retain very little.
In Italy, it is also that everything is paid and very expensive. For example, to enter a church you must pay, if you want to go up to the roof, you have to pay extra and if there is a crypt around, you pay extra again. oh! And if you are not dressed “appropriately” you must pay up to 5 euros for a paper gown to cover yourself.
Nor do I pay to enter churches. The church is already a company that takes money everywhere and they don’t pay taxes, so I’m not going to give them my money.
So, only Venice without museums, is visited in a short time.
The last day before going to Verona, we bought the daily public transport ticket that includes unlimited bus and vaporetto for 24 hours. It is worth it because a single vaporetto trip costs 7.50 euros and this daily ticket costs 20 euros.
We went from Venice to Murano and from there to Burano. The idea was to also visit Torcello and Giudecca, but we had spent all morning visiting the first two.
The vaporetto is slow and noisy, so the trip is far from pleasant. Also, there were a lot of people, especially considering the pandemic. I can’t even imagine what that would be like in August under normal conditions.
Murano is like Venice, but less dirty and doesn’t smell as bad. There you go around for about 30 minutes to see how little there is.
From there to Burano the vaporetto takes an hour. This with the unbearable heat in August in Venice since there is no air conditioning. In Burano there are two streets of multicolored houses, so you take the photos and that’s it.
It was already one o’clock in the day and we decided to go back to the hotel because to go to Torcello and Giudecca we were going to lose the whole afternoon to see basically the same thing. Initially I thought of going to Giudecca only because it is the closest. Maybe it would have been better.
Personally, I think that a visit to Murano and Burano is not worth it, especially with the large amount of time that is lost in the journey.
What was noticeable was the tranquility of the people who lived on these two islands, you saw them relaxed sitting in front of the houses and talking with the neighbors from one side of the canals to the other. Nothing to do with the chaos of Venice.
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