Hello, Hive friends!

Today I'm going to take you with me while visiting two small islands near Venice: Murano and Burano.

Both of these islands are part of Venice municipe and, despite everything being surrounded by water, you can easily get there by using the famous italian vaporettos. Vaporettos are, no more and no less, than small boats with a very fancy name, lol.

Aside from that, it only takes 20 minutes to get to Murano from Venice and 40 from Murano to Burano. It's definitely worth the hype!

Murano

Murano's the closest island to Venice... and allegedly, the biggest one. Truth is that, when you start walking from one place to another, you realize that it's really small. It only took me about an hour to see almost every part of the city.

Despite this, Murano is still a really nice place. It's most famous for its craftsmanship in glass. Whatever you want, you can find it made of glass, that's for sure. From glasses to jewelry, from all sorts of animal shapes to even ornaments for your Christmas tree. People there are incredibly talented when it comes to creating things.

As well as that, the city is beautiful by itself, all surrounded by little canals, boats and small bridges everywhere.

As in every other city, no matter how big or small, you do have some piazzas and beautiful buildings such as these ones that you're about to see. I really found it interesting that there's some sort of oriental influence in some of them, due to the shape of the windows and decorations.

And finally, this is one of the most famous landscapes of Murano, the Faro/lighthouse:

Burano

To be honest, Murano didn't impress me that much. It's got a very strong resemblance to Venice, of course, so although I found it beautiful, it was more or less the same... but that feeling lasted till I got to Burano. I fell in love with that place.

It's even smaller than Murano, of course, as I only had to walk for a bit more than half and hour there. But it wa sa time in which I had so much fun and it was so wonderful to be able to see such colourful facades and buildings.

As Murano is well-known for it's glass art, Burano is a great place to find all sorts of clothes. Their fabrics have a very high quality and their designs are quite unique.

But still, what really catches your eye is that everywhere you go, there's a lot of colour. Simply stunning!!

Bridges are everywhere too, but this city has a really nice vibe, from time to time you get to think that you're inside a fairytale... or at least that what I thought! You don't get to see such strong vibing colours in a building everyday!