TOURS: The best tour of Venice is the one you can take by yourself. Venice is a relatively small city; it can be covered almost entirely in two days of walking. It's fun simply to wander-through streets so narrow your outstretched hands can touch the buildings along each side-to gaze in stores where eels and octopus are the bill of fare. Then take a marathon vaporetto ride: start at the railroad station and glide up the Grand Canal to the Lido at the other end. That takes an hour, and provides your best all-around look at the city.
But don't confine your sightseeing to the Grand Canal; you haven't really seen Venice until you've also made the trip around the outside of the city, via the equally important Giudecca Canal. From St. Mark's Square, take a Circolare Motoscafo, which makes an entirely circular tour of the city-one goes clockwise, the other counter-clockwise-along the Canale Giudecca route. Or, for an even more comprehensive outer tour, take a #5 vaporetto from St. Mark's Square to St. Giorgio, then all around Venice-a long, one hour and ten-minute trip to the Fondamente Nuova on the other side, from which you can cross over to the island of Murano, and back. Then, from the Fondamente Nuova, cut across Venice on foot, back to the Piazza San Marco. You'll have seen a great deal more than you'd glimpse on a commercial tour to Murano, with scores of other tourists.
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