Burano’s main canal on a flat winter day — the color-coded facades running back into the distance, working boats moored at the fondamenta, a handful of visitors already clustered outside a glass shop thirty seconds off the vaporetto. The image earns its postcard status. What it doesn’t show is the forty-minute boat ride, the lace shops, or the lunch bill. A fuller read on what these islands actually deliver: Murano and Burano Are Beautiful for About Five Minutes.