> The "locals" who service the place commute from outside of the town. Fascinating. > It was only one I was well out of the older parts, and well away from th

> The "locals" who service the place commute from outside of the town. Fascinating. > It was only one I was well out of the older parts, and well away from the tourists did I see the sorts of things I visit foreign places to experience. Fascinating, you walked out of historical Venice (famously surrounded by lagoon) that has been mostly the same for centuries? Must have been a wet walk... >I have no idea how these real places are fairing, but I suspect much better because the walls of the canals were higher. Fascinating, you were carrying around an altimeter and doing measurements on the height of the water. Was it high tide? Spring tide? Do you even know what a spring tide is? >It's gritty, real and nowhere near as pretty, but I remember my walk through there far better than I remember Venice itself. So really, you walked out of St Marks and ended up in "real" Venice? It's the most famous city surrounded by water on Earth, did you think you were going to come on HN and make up lame bullshit?