Venice. What an amazing place. We spent the day walking the streets, looking in the amazing shop fronts, saying prayers in churches, looking at amazing facades of buildings, travelled on ferries and a gondola. It was a very enjoyable day. Our first outing was a gondola ride with a 7^th generation gondolier. He was quite young but had been doing it for 9 years. We travelled through many of the narrow inner city back street canals, under many low bridges which required balancing the gondola on an angle to get through. One bridge was little more than 1 metre above the water level. We kissed under the Bridge of Sighs (Apparently a tradition), saw the Rialto bridge, a prison and one of the oldest buildings. There are over 400 gondolas in Venice. Cost 80 Euro for 40mins during the day, 100 after 7pm. We then headed to San Marco Square and saw the Cathedral, Doges Palace. These were amazing and crowded. We then went from one side of Venice to the other and back around the perimeter looking at everything along the way. The smog/mist made the background of all the photos a bit dull, apparently the fog is always around this time of year. At the end of a long day of walking we hopped on the autostrade for a couple of hours, heading northeast towards Austria which is to be our next destination. The mountains were amazing as we got close to the Italy/Slovenia/Austria borders but were misted over so not very clear, but there all the same. We stopped for the last night in Italy at a town called Tarvisio.