Splish, splash…

This is my first time in Venice and like almost everyone I was aware of the canals, but I’d never really thought about how the environ impacts day-to-day life. After board my first Vaperetto—the city bus operated totally by boat—it occurred to me that almost everything is transported by water. If you call the fire brigade, it has to get to you by water. If you need a new refrigerator, it arrives by water. Need ½ cubic yard of gravel? That comes by boat. Having refreshment near the Rialto bridge this afternoon, I got a first-hand look at this Water World system in action. Within a two minute period, two ambulances roared past pushing up enormous wakes that smashed Vaperetto into docks and sent tourist-laden gondolas into E-ticket pitch and rolls. I’m still not sure this idea of building a town atop a mud flat was a good idea.

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