A day in Venice.

 Today we caught the ferry from Punta Sabionni to Venice to check out the place I once visited with Graciella in 1982. When you look at all the photos I posted you will see the heat haze that was with us all day.  The temperature was over 40 degrees C, and the humidity was worse.  It was a tough day to out in the sun when we were  on a so called 'rest day'.

It was nice just walking around the alley ways of Venice, sipping coffee with the other tourists.  The amount of tourists lining up to enter churches and museums was mind boggling.  We arrived on the island around 9am and the people were already lined up for 200 metres.  I gave that a big flick.  I just wanted to wonder around the town.

 The photo above shows some of the water craft making their way along the Grand Canal.  Peter and I took a trip on the river craft up and down the canal for an hour.  It gave us time out of the sun and an opportunity to take some photos from the canal. The water was OK, but I was surprised with the amount of graffiti on the walls in some alleys.

 The photo above is of St Marks Square.  This is probably the quietest you will ever see the place.

 The photo above shows one of the huge cruise liners that frequent the city of Venice with it's billion tourists on board.  It's amazing how that huge ship made it's way into such a tight fit.

 The photo above shows one of the canals you can take a gondola on.  I was not prepared to pay 80 Euro to go for a boat trip with Peter up a canal with some Italian singing songs I couldn't understand.

The photo above shows the scores of Gondola's waiting for business.

After walking around Venice, Peter and I took another ferry to the island of Murano.  Graciella and I had visited the glass factory in 1982 and I wanted to see it all again.  The thing now is, that there's a hundred glass blowing factories all over the island.  We took a brief look and moved on.

With the afternoon getting on, and both of us wanting to call it quits, we got back on the ferry and returned to Punta Sabionni.  I headed off to the beach for some whale watching and Peter chilled out around the campsite.

Tomorrow we start the journey to Pula, Croatia.  We have have to catch 2 ferries to reach the major port in Venice. The ship leaves at 5pm and should get to Croatia by 9pm same day.

Until tomorrow, safe riding.