Venice is a grand city with old world flavor. No cars are allowed in the city. The Grand Canal slices through the city and many smaller canals and bridges link the rest of the neighborhoods like watery roads. Boats take the form of taxis, buses and even UPS trucks.
My photos of the grand canal cover day and night. Most of our time in Venice was foggy.
We did not take a gondola ride. However we did cross the canal in a traghetto, which is a gondola for crowds to cross where there is no bridge. People stand in the boat as they go across.