After our trauma in Philly, we decided to splurge and  rent the nice place below with  a good view of the lagoon in Venice (Clay had the lower floor and I had the upper)-

 though lots of people kept shuffling through for some reason.  And our place had a nice view of the Italian navy-

The Venetians also  seemed quite proud of these stationary horses that did not seem to go anywhere-

But some canals are very pretty and unique-