Carol and I had each been to Venice twice before – once as a family, and then we each went at different times – me in 1984 and Carol in 2005 on a girls’ trip. But we had never taken a gondola (sad face!). Me because I was a broke college student in 1984 and Carol because she can be frugal at times. In 2007 with the family, well, the cost was way too high for a family of five.
So before this trip I vowed we would go in a gondola ride. Now, they post the price, there’s no attempt to rip you off. I wasn’t going to let the essentially $100 cost get in the way of something you need to do at least once in life.
We hired a gondolier right by the Rialto Bridge because I wanted to ride in a gondola under the famed Rialto Bridge. After we went a little ways on the Grand Canal, our gondolier took us into some of the smaller canals, under low pedestrian bridges (well, there really aren’t any other kind in Venice!).
Yes, it was cool as we hoped it would be. And everyone else in gondolas going past us had the same big happy grin on their faces.
Carol and I hope that if you go to Venice that you spring for a gondola ride. It’s one of the best ways to sightsee in the most unique city in the world.
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