Don’t take anything for granted. The roommate and I spent the morning asking directions to a Venetian Internet Cafe. Directions in Venice sound like this: Go straight, walk over three bridges, go about 40 meters after that.
The problem is that no street is straight for longer than one block, and there are bridges everywhere. And I don’t really know what a meter is. But we were undeterred by the rain, and eventually our trusty iPhones got us to the right spot. I breathed a huge sigh of relief, then noticed this sign:
Internet No Work Today.
So I sneaked into a fancy hotel and used their business center. Because in Italy you always have to have a back up plan.