Venice day 3- Burano

We didn't have a full third day in Venice because we had an afternoon train to Florence. But we felt like we had seen everything we wanted to in Venice itself so we decided to follow the advice of one of my friends and take a little boat out to see the island of Burano. We are SO glad we did. The houses in Burano are all painted the most vibrant colors and made for some fabulous picture. Burano was historically a fishing town so the story behind the bright houses is that fishermen wanted to be able to see their homes from far away at sea so they painted them extremely bright colors that would stand out against the blues and greys of the ocean. Who knows if that is true but it seems to make sense :-). We'll let the pictures do the talking in this post.

 Trying to match the buildings...I was more successful than Reed obviously.