We spent alot of time just walking around, taking in the views. We managed to tour the Doge's Palace and and the Basilica San Marco. Peter and I spent a few hours at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum while the girls went off shopping. We rode up and down the Grand Canal on the water buses or vaporetti and visited the glass blowing island of Murano.
We had a horribly expensive coffee and ice cream on the Piazza San Marco and some pretty good italian food at various restaurants. A note to future travellers, most Venice restaurants charge per person for the pleasure of just occupying space at a table, in addition to whatever you buy to eat. On the Piazza that was 5 euros per person!
The girls fed the pigeons on the Piazza and we concluded our trip with a great gondola ride through big and small canals.
May is a wonderful time to visit Venice. It is busy with tourists, but not too much. The weather is nice, but not too hot. And the canals don't yet smell from the heat of the summer.
