My roommate Kristen and I decided to go to Italy during our spring break, escaping the London winter that was stubbornly hanging on as we approached April and heading to a country with weather that was increasingly warm and sunny with each city we went to. We spent the whole break - 10 days - in Italy so we had plenty of time to explore and enjoy our time there. The first part of our trip was three days in Venice, a place I had been dying to visit for years. After a 3:30 am cab ride to the train station and a 6 am flight from Stansted, we took the bus from the airport to our Airbnb, and then, finally, got on a bus to cross the water. When we got off the bus, we stood beside a canal with Venice's narrow and twisting streets ahead of us, water taxis and gondolas cruising down the canals, and crowds of people crossing the bridges and pushing down the sidewalks.
