Thursday, May 22, 2008

Venice


After London was time to return to Italy. Booked to stay in Mestre and planned to go to nearby Venice and other cities. On the first night arrived at Marco Polo Airport. We were sold the wrong tickets at Airport for a non existant bus service, so along with others got on another Bus going to Mestre. Luckily Italian Bus companies rarely send inspectors. Anyhow arriving in Mestre holding the directions to the hotel, we eventually decided to get a taxi. Turned out the directions were completly wrong and the Hotel had mysteriously moved 1.2 km further along the road. The only real bad point of the hols was the difficulty getting buses back to the hotel and we eventually gave up and got a taxi. We did all the main Islands of Venice, Burano, Murano and Lido. Also spent a pleasant day in Trieste which was about 160 km away on a train journey. We also 'did' Padua and Treviso. Unfortunately on the final day it rained and thundered all day so we just went early to the Airport and waited and waited and waited.

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