So far I have to say that Venice is so much more relaxing than Rome. Not that I didn't enjoy Rome. It's just that Rome is not the most user friendly city on earth. Once you're at the actual sites it is awesome, but getting to them can be a bit of a hassle in a city where no one seems to care to be bothered to help you.

In contrast, the train trip to Venice was beautiful and Florence was nuts! But hey, we could walk everywhere in Florence for 5.5 hours and we even got in to see Michelangelo's David which was amazing.

Venice has been great. It has been very neat to get to see some things we've already seen only in more detail than before as well as new experiences. We saw four museums in one day as they were all attached to each other. The Lido (beach) yesterday was beautiful. Today we went to Murano where they make the fancy glass. We went to the Glass Museum and saw glass pieces from the first century still intact! The stuff is incredibly strong. We are spending the remainder of today taking it easy, walking around, and are going to a concert of Baroque music tonight.

Once again, sadly, we have not been able to upload more pictures. Hopefully, with more internet cafes at our disposal, we will be able to once we reach Poland. Of the two working internet cafes in Venice, we went to one last night and are at the other today. This one is a lot closer to our hotel. We have to put all our Rome and Venice pictures on a CD today and will hopefully get some of those up.

Until then, ciao from Venice and don't even ask me to say hello yet in Polish.