How, How?: Venice

Whew.. more than half a year liao, but anyway, just put this up so that in years to come, probably can look back on this...

Venice: world famous for being the water city. Being world famous will inevitably cause an effect on it's citizens. Venice constitutes a group of islands and also a neighbouring area on mainland Italy. Due to the vast number of tourist swarming to the islands, most of the original citizens decided it was better to move to the mainland for livelihood.
We spent our stay in Venice on the 'island portion'. After touring almost most of the islands, we can't help but notice that the whole place is filled with repetitive souvenior shops, branded goods, restaurants, hotels.. The entire place gave us an impression that it was just made for tourists. And true enough, every street is filled with tourists, can hardly see any true blue locals around.