Tuesday 1st October 2024
Day 18
This morning we rose a little earlier than normal, we bought a 3 day travel ticket for the vaporetto and caught the 9am departure, this docked at the terminal Zattere.
Our early departure was designed to enable us to get to some of the main tourist spots before the crowds built up, that’s useful if you want to take photos but also for us it means Layla isn’t being trodden on.
It was a short walk from here to St Marks square, Michelle tried to prebook a ticket to go in St Marks but they weren’t available, there was a lot of scaffolding around that limited the view and crowds were already beginning to form.
We intend to return to this area on Thursday and I will endeavour to take more successful photos
We wandered off from the busy area and began to explore the streets in the vicinity, there are a lot of shops selling expensive items and many shops selling identical items, Murano glass, Carnival masks etc.
Eventually we decided to stop for a mid morning break.
Fully refreshed we wandered on….
After a while the streets began to fill with fellow tourists so we headed back to Rialto Bridge, crossed the Grand Canal and began to walk along much narrower streets with fewer tourists. Eventually the stomach dictated a stop …
Feeling refreshed but beginning to tire we walked in zig zag way through many streets keeping the Grand Canal on our left, these streets were decidedly less touristy.
You often hear about Venice’s problem with flooding and even today there were some areas with water washing ashore from the canals, we even saw a waiter wearing wellingtons.
taraabit 