Burano Stillness

Venice is among the most visited cities in Europe, and a single boat ride out of it will take you somewhere genuinely magical. Burano is where all that color went to live. Streets and canals lined in every shade the imagination can muster, each house painted deliberately against its neighbor by long agreement, so that a fisherman coming back could find his own door through fog. It is small. A day is more than enough for lunch and a slow walk. And the colors play absolute wonders with the green sea coming in.