Quick post from Venice

Love it here. As long as you are around the Grand Canal it is magical. Away from that are just neighborhoods, construction sites and stuff I do not want to see on vacation. I enjoy riding the boats around the town and am getting ready to take the boat to Murano island where they do glass blowing. The weather has been great which is especially lucky here since Nov is one of the times when Venice floods. I saw that they had lots of tables piled up in the market places and found out that those are actually used as walkways during the floods. The water is right up to the walkways normally so any bit of high water will flood the areas.
It is also interesting that they do not want anyone to work on stabilizing the buildings along the canal so they are slowly rotting and sinking. It is still a wonderful place to be.