[3AngelaD]

The Venetians don't dress like that. They are much more, ahem, the Italian equivalent of tweedy college professors. Very bland. Cruising around Venice in an Armani would mark you as as tourist as surely as shorts and a backpack.

What I resent there is the hefty fee to use the public facilities. If your hotel isn't handy, you have to fork over the Euros.

[twigs]

I resented it too when I was there. And it affected the way I ate over there. I ate very light breakfasts and lunches, then ate a normal dinner, but nothing more. I bought water to drink in the day. We always tried to eat somewhere at least once during the day and later at dinner that had public facilities. The lady I was with ate a lot more and was always rushing for facilities. She paid a lot, too. She watched one woman—a local—whose small child had to go to the bathroom. She didn’t have the changed needed and the child just went standing there because she couldn’t wait. It’s a horrible system.