Picture a normal city, only the streets are made of water and the cars are really boats. We did know this about Venice before we went, but some aspects were a bit unexpected. Take the above island, for example. It's a cemetery. Fascinating, huh?
And since they don't have vehicles with wheels, they have corresponding boats that serve the same purposes as our cars/trucks/vans, etc. In this other Venice post, in the very last picture (the one I'm in) you can see a taxi rank just over my shoulder--water taxis. They also have...
....buses (this one is at a bus stop, which is also afloat),
...ambulances,
...fuel stations,
... and even ice cream
"trucks."
This guy even has a little fruit stand out of his boat. 
And this looks like a residential parking area.Venice just seems like another world! Once we left the lagoon it was a bit shocking to see cars again.
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