Venice...

Is simply beautiful. We got off our train and made it to the hotel by
8:00p. After check in we went wandering up and down the streets and
eventually ended up at St. Mark's Square (which sounds much better in
Italian but I didn't want to murder the spelling). It ended up being
less than 500 feet away from the hotel, we had just started walking in
a slightly different direction to check out other shops. I haven't
seen the town by day yet, but I can already understand why a lot of
our friends favored Venice over other destinations.