For a city built on wood pilings in the middle of a lagoon, exploring Venice presents a unique experience unlike any other places we have been to. When visiting Europe, we always look forward to the much better public transportation options and actually enjoy not having a car. The metro and tram systems are convenient and easy to use. The buses (especially the ones in Germany) are much classier and cleaner than King County's Metro buses. We are no strangers to using rail-based or wheeled public transportation to travel around. But only in Venice have we experienced that the majority of transport options all came in different sizes and forms of boats. There were absolutely no cars!