Greetings from my current location - very close to my very comfy bed that is calling quite persistently. I've been up for about 36 hours give or take 5 minutes and will gratefully tumble in very soon.
The flights to get here were all on time and relatively smooth. The airports all provided great walking opportunities that I didn't realize I wanted. Actually, I've always wanted to ride one of those extended golf carts in an airport. Today it was not to be.
Departing Ottawa at noon on Wednesday we flew to Toronto and got in the first 500 miles on foot. We thought that was a lot. Then we flew to Amsterdam and the amount of walking puts Toronto to shame. And then we arrived in Venice, and mercifully found a few of those moving sidewalks after we claimed our luggage. Our bags were loaded onto a bus and the tour group embarked on a water taxi ride to Murano. The idea was to have lunch and visit a Murano glass factory. Ha ha ha. We did those things but there was at least an hour of walking on a bright hot sunny day. The weather forecast had been for rain and I was never more grateful for a wrong forecast. Tomorrow now promises to be much the same. With lots of walking.
We finished the day with a lovely dinner in the Bristol Hotel where we are staying. Each room has a balcony and mine has a view of the beach. I will not be getting up early to walk on the sand before we set out for yet another day of endless walking. And after our bus and water taxi rides we are to do a walking tour of Venice and have lunch. Then five of us are taking a gondola ride - just because we can!!!
Too tired to write more, Here are some pictures. This is the reverse order of how they were taken but I'm too tired to rearrange them. Apologies for grammmmmer and sprelleng errirs.
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| Murano in the sun |
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| Street in Murano before lunch |
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| A much faster water taxi than ours |
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| The interior of our water taxi with its supremely uncomfortable seats. See me smiling - that smile is hiding the discomfort my backside was enduring. Besides, it was early in the day and before our many more steps. |
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| Our water taxi waiting for us to board |
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