Does Venice smell? I've smelled more piss on a typical streets than here.   Now, maybe in the heat of summer it may get more fragrant...but no, no stink other than the ocean.  It's a little fishy by the fish market...like in Seattle or San Fran.   Did see a rat last night, and we are told there are lots of them, as many of the lower floors are only used for storage...the flooding thing, so the rats live down there and the people live upstairs.  Mosquitoes have been the bane of this trip, no screens on the windows and with all the standing water from the rains.  

With no wheeled transport at all....no bikes even, it's a walkers dream.  It's a challenge when it rains, with all the umbrella's...you can get poked, watch out!

No everyone should put Venice on their "bucket list".