Had a great time in Venice with my wife this summer. Only thing wrong was it was too short a trip only two nights. We didn't get to go to Murano or Burano.

The only time we got lost was when we got there, the boat dropped us off near St. Marks, but I was all turned around trying to read the map. The rest of the time we just wandered around looking at whatever we passes. Found a great church northeast of St. Marks that wasn't really in any of our guides. can't remember the name but it was beautiful inside.

I like to think I have a good internal compass, and even my wife was remarking on it while we were in Italy. It only took me short time to get my bearings, and then I knew what direction to head to get to certain points.

Venice was the toughest for this though.

one last thing, had a great gondola ride for a reasonable price. just off of St. Mark's Square there was a big group of gondoliers sitting around waiting for the nightly rush. We were just a little early for primetime and we found a guy that was just finishing his day. Gave us a ride w/ commentary and singing. Awesome time!