Venice, Traghetto

While walking from here to there, sometimes the journey can be shortened by use of a gondola ferry, called “traghetto,” which cross the Grand Canal at strategic points. This is also a way to take a gondola ride for a very small sum of money. As we recount our vacation and brag about our gondola ride in Venice, we don’t have to dwell on the fact that we spent only a few minutes and very little money, for a short gondola junket across, rather than a longer excursion down the Grand Canal.