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Legend disgorged its 2,500 passengers, including us, in Venice on Saturday morning. Time once again to fend for ourselves. We checked into a hotel at Mestre and spent the following day wandering around Piazza San Marco, the canal-side alleyways, and a couple of nearby islands, Murano and Burano. At the former we admired the extremely beautiful but oh-so-expensive glass pieces displayed in the canal-front outlets. The artisans were on hand to explain how they’d made each piece; this helped to rationalize the asking prices but even so, the thought of dropping a 300 Euro plate was too much to contemplate.
Many cities are a variation on a theme, but there’s only one Venice.
