I know, I've only been in Venice just over a week, but this Let's Go job is enough to make an instant city-expert out of anyone. Drawing upon this expertise, here are my picks for the best of Venice in the five most important categories for experiencing this city:

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Still basking in the afterglow of my Greek island-hopping adventures, I've found that Venice offers an island experience all its own. I only recently learned that Venice actually comprises 117 islands in total, and during my time here, I've visited five of the most famous islands that dot this city's vast jade-green lagoon.

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When I was told that my travels for Let's Go this summer would end with 10 days in Venice, an ecstatic thought bubble materialized over my head, "I CAN HAZ PASTA?!" I am a complete and utter carb-fiend, and there are few things in this world that I love more than a heaping plate of Italian pasta.

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Well guys, the inevitable has finally happened. I guess Zeus and Poseidon (in the incarnations of Superjet Speedboats and Blue Star Ferries) didn't want me to complete my island-hopping route without some kind of Homeric seafaring disaster. Though this Aegean mishap was a disaster for my Let's Go research itinerary, it was, luckily, considerably less harrowing than anything that happened in the Odyssey. I have emerged unscathed, save for some lingering nausea.

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For the third time in my travels in Greece, I've fallen in love. Like my first Greek lover (Athens), this time it's not a person, but a place (no comment on the second). The new object of my affections is Oia: a town on the northern rim of Santorini's towering caldera cliffs. Though Fira is the capital of Santorini, stunning Oia steals the show. You know those iconic blue-domed white churches that you see on all the Santorini paintings and postcards? That's Oia.

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