Mark's apology to Venice

Mark here:  I must publish my first official apology to Venice.  (I know...that's a week ago.)  I've been praising it as an amazingly unique, canal-bisected city that smells like a sewer.  It no longer smells like a sewer.  A few years after I visited last in 1986, the city stopped  dumping their sewage directly into the canals.  Now, Venice is fully a place of splendor, with no caveats.