<\/a>To love Venice, forget the map and get lost. Then we reach such lazy lanes not crowded by tourists.<\/p><\/div>\n
What I liked most is the quiet residential squares, out of the crowd. They are called campo, in contrast to the Palazzio that is San Marco.<\/p>\n
Forget the map and get lost. Then we reach such lazy lanes not crowded by tourists. These are relaxed squares just outside the houses with small bridges or doors opening out to them. We saw well decorated wells in the center and later learnt that these are the main rain-water collecting cisterns, very important for a saline water city. Very cosy place to sit and relax, local people going about doing their routines, children coming out to play, or coming together to gossip. Do spend some time on those relaxed squares.<\/p>\n
We left in the evening in Train Italia to Florence. Though rains restricted our tour, I liked whatever we saw, especially drenched in fresh rains. The Grand canal, mode of transport, the open spaces, leisurely motor-free walkways, beautiful houses with red flowers in each balcony. Of course Picasso and Jackson Pollock in Peggy Guggenheim’s house and of everything, that house itself! The fragrance of the flowers in each street woul linger with us for sometime!<\/p>\n