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Italy - Rome, Florence, Bologna, San Marino and Venice

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hangchoi:
Burano is famous for its colourful houses. Each house would pick a colour different from its neighbour and the governemnt subsidizes the painting of the house. This is due to an old story that once upon a time there was a plague in Burano, the residents painted their house in colour other than white to indicate that none of them were infected. Hence, you cannot see a white house here in Burano. And it gives us a beautiful scene now.

hangchoi:
Another scene to look at is the leaning tower. Due to its soil structure, the tower of the church is leaning a bit to one side. So, not only Piza has a leaning tower in Italy.

However, you have to see closely in order to see it (better to compare with the wall line of the colourful house)

hangchoi:
The third outside island we went to was Lido Island. This island is big, so does its ferry. We walked along the street and found quite a lot of tourist. But the point is, we did not find anything interesting to see, not much I should say.

And I felt like walking in Beverly Hills more than in Italy.

hangchoi:
Having said that, the sunset at Lido was beautiful.....

hangchoi:
We bought a 24 hour pass for water bus. On the next day, our water-bus pass still have an hour to go, then we decided to take bus no. 1 for a tour. This is because route no. 1 travels through the grand canal of Venice island, so that we can have a view of the city along the canal.

Hence it is not necessary to pay 80 Euros for gondola, unless you really want to take a ride on gondola.

First picture is Ponte della Costituzione - the bridge linking Venice Island to the train station.
Second one is the Venice train station
Then, Rialto bridge

and we left the waterbus at Piazza San Marco

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