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In this video I share my Venice Tips for Travellers. The 9 things you need to know before you go to Venice with essential Venice survival tips and watch outs.
The city has around 60,000 residents in the old city and receives the same number of visitors every day. It makes the city busy and crowded and so these 9 things you need to know before going to Venice will ensure you get the most of your trip there.
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hi I'm Gary B from tips for travelers
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and in this video I'm going to tell you
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how to make the most of Venice how to
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survive this crazy crazy City the
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historic part of Venice has a population
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of around about 60,000 permanently the
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bigger are area has about 250,000 but
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the city gets between 50,000 and 60,000
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tourists a day it's manically busy and
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so with these tips that I'm going to
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give you this will tell you how you make
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the most of your trip to Venice my first
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tip is watch my mustsee and must do
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Venice video now don't go there straight
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away because at the end of this video I
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will have the whole video and it tells
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you what you absolutely should see if
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you're in Venice and so my second tip
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for making the most of Venice is plan
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when you come 500 cruise ships visit
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every single year and that is really
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when Venice gets really packed so I'm
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here at the beginning of October when I
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video this and we've been here for 2
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days and there's been five cruise ships
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every day so the city gets packed with
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cruise passengers lots of Tours Etc so
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one of the things to do is to look at
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the time of year so if you come in March
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which is really before the cruise season
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starts or you come in October when the
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cruise season is kind of wrapping up you
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probably will find it a little bit
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quieter one of the things I would
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suggest you do if you're planning to
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visit is take a look at a site like
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cruise tims.com and search for Venice
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and that will tell you how many cruise
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ships are going to be in the town when
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you're here and that gives a sense of
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just how you know packed the city will
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be the other thing to do is it gets very
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very busy on weekend lots of people come
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to Venice for romantic weekends so if
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you can try and avoid the weekend in
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terms of time of year so that's really
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March and October are great times of the
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year to come when they likely to be
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quieter my third tip really is one of
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the big challenges of Venice is a
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massive big tourist trap because so many
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visitors come into Venice and it's
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really just built up this whole industry
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of lots and lots of tourist traps a
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couple of things that you should
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absolutely look out for in some of the
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big tourist centers like St Mark Square
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be extremely careful because you might
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find having a round of coffees between
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three or four of you could cost you
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€100 because a lot of those places will
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charge you up to €25 that's nearly $30
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simply for sitting down that's before
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you've even ordered your coffee so
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really before you go into any place
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check if they're going to charge you as
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sort of a cover charge for simply being
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there the second thing is really avoid
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restaurants which have multiple
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languages because you're probably going
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to get ripped off because they are
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really uh tourist trap places the food's
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not great so again places like near
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Rialto Bridge you'll also find it just
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uh crazy busy if you really want to have
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Italian gelato one of the things I would
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strongly recommend you do is again avoid
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tourist areas if you find gelet gelato
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which is very brightly colored and
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really sort of uh you know piled up high
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like that it probably is not proper
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genuine homemade gelato it's probably
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more kind of manufactured and sort of
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whipped up so it's probably not going to
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be proper gelato another thing to watch
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out for is you'll find various people
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setting up stores selling sort of
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designer bags again clearly they're all
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fakes and really be very careful that
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you don't get ripped off and Confused
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over pricing but certainly remember
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those bags are going to be fake bags and
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so my next tip is around souvenirs the
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two most popular souvenirs within Venice
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are Morana glass and mask of course
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Venice is famous for its mask balls
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however again be extremely careful
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because a lot of those you will find are
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basically made in China so you'll find
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glass which is very inexpensive it's not
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Morana glass it's probably Chinese and
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again there's lots of masks which are
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really inexpensive if you genuinely want
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to buy Italian made glass and beautiful
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Italian uh masks you're going to pay a
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lot of money so make sure that you again
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avoid the sort of the big tourist areas
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the little stalls on the side of the
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canals uh and you know perhaps if you
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really want to buy Morano glass actually
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head out to Morano Island then you can
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be absolutely sure it is you know
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genuine another thing that people of
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course like to do when they come to ven
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is just go on a Gonda ride however be
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very careful cuz this could end up
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costing you a lot of money so only go on
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a Gonda ride if you really want to be
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able to tick It Off The Bucket List so
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it's likely to cost you around 80 for
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about a 40-minute ride and then it goes
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up in increments every 20 minutes so it
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could cost you another €40 so it could
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cost you around $100 the price goes up
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fairly significantly after 7:00 at night
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when it becomes €100 so you like to be
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paying $20 and again you have increments
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of around about €40 for every 20 20
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minutes after that so it is a pretty
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expensive thing to do so only really do
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it if you really want to just be able to
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tick it off a great alternative to doing
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a gondola ride which personally I prefer
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is the water buses uh because it costs
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around €0 for a 24-hour pass so that's
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what about
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$25 and they have great great itineries
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they're very easy to work out the maps
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are really good they're very well
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signposted and even if you end up going
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the wrong direction you know it's not a
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very big city you just jump off and get
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on in the other direction but it's about
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€20 for a 24-hour pass it goes down the
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Grand Canal it heads pretty much
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everywhere you want to go and I think
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it's a much better way than going on a
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gondola personally also you get a chance
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to take great photographs um you know
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lot the video I've taken in in this I've
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taken basically from the the the water
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buses my next tip is that Venice gets
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very hot and very sticky in summer and
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in Winter it gets really cold you know
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it's surrounded by water and it gets
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very very hot very humid and also gets
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very cold so again you know make sure
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that you're prepared if uh you know it's
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very expensive to buy things like water
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so if you're here in summer you perhaps
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bring your own water and make sure that
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you really do wrap up warm if you're
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here in Winter the other thing to be
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prepared for is what's known as the a
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ala Thea ala are the floods that
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basically swamp parts of Venice
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particularly St Marks Square uh every
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single year they have 100 of them every
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year and it's basically caused by high
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tides but there is 100 so there's quite
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a strong chance that when you're in
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Venice you might find them they tend to
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be more sort of in winter time uh so
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what you will find and you'll see them
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dotted around the city are these sort of
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risen platforms and you kind of wonder
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what they for but when when it floods
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basically they lay those out as Pathways
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so that you can kind of walk along those
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Pathways one of the best ways to get a
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great experience out of Venice is to get
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lost don't just stick in the main
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tourist areas just go down side roads
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and walk along and you'll come across
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great canals great Bridges and it'll be
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much quieter like for example the one
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that I'm actually on right now uh it
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gets so packed so busy in the busy parts
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of Venice and it's quite nice just to
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head down these little canals and you'll
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find little uh taxis going down you'll
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find little shops and one of the great
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places if you head to St Mark's Square
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with uh the Waterfront and you know in
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front of you turn left and just keep
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walking and walking you'll get to a
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region called Castell that's where lots
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of the locals live and there's some very
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beautiful houses it's very quiet no one
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really goes there but do that kind of
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thing just get lost and you'll soon find
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your way back CU you'll soon find your
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way back to on the canals it's not a
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very big city and it's very easy to find
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your way back so do get lost just get
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away from where the throngs are and
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really then you'll get a real sense of
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men and you'll get great great pictures
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probably one of the best tips that I can
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give you in Venice is to be an early
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bird and a late bir as I mentioned you
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know cruise ships come in and you know a
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lot of people get up late so actually if
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you want to really have benus to
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yourself and see great things get up
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early in the morning get out before all
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the crowds and before the cruise ships
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have sort of got everybody off be mind
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the cruise ships will arrive 7 8:00 9:00
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so it'll be a while before they get
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processed and head into the city so get
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up early and you know spend time there
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if you're not on a cruise ship the other
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thing that you do is later in the
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afternoon because bear in mind most
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people have to go back at their cruise
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ships because they'll set sale you know
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4:00 5 :00 or 6:00 so as the sun goes
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down I mean Venice is very beautiful and
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it's also a great time of course those
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you like to take pictures you know the
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morning and the evening of those of
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golden hours where you get great light
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and it's a brilliant time to take
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pictures and it's also so much more
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quiet and less crazy and uh that I would
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strongly recommend and so there you have
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it that's my tips on how do you make the
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most of this crazy City it's an amazing
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place it's oneof a kind it's a great
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place to visit be in mind it's going to
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be very busy it's a real tourist trap
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place and you need to be a little bit
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smarter how you do it so now watch the
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video about the must sea and things to
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do in Venice this amazing amazing City
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but it's packed it's busy it's a bit of
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a tourist scam so you really need to
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know your way around
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