Santo Marco Square in Venice, Italy.  I loved Venice.  Hands down, my favourite stop on the tour.  The city was so alive with shops, vendors, birds, gondolas, hundreds of canals and bridges. The people were so friendly and helpful. There was just something about the place that really got to me.  If I could go back to just one place in Europe, Venice would be it.

  View from a gondola in Venice, Italy.  My friends and I had the opportunity to take a tour of Venice in a gondola.  The sun was setting as we started our tour...it was absolutely magical.  We were the only ones who did not bring alcohol but we had the most fun, pressuring our gondola driver to sing Italian songs, singing "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie..."  I think the driver thought we were drunk/high/crazy because he seemed too happy to drop us off at the end of the tour :).