Sun 15th Sept (To Venice)

  • Brekky (last at hotel)
  • Photos with Gratzie and Giuseppe. Gave chocolates to Gratzie.
  • 8.15 Drive to airport via fuel stop, driving on Sunday is much easier, only lost once finding hertz parking
  • Catania airport very busy but enough time. Lots of queues.
  • Ryanair about 20mins late taking off.
  • Felt like seats on Melbourne metro trains
  • Light lunch
  • Hard seats
  • Met boonses (tired) and Luca driver at arrivals, awesome big Mercedes taxi van
  • Dropped at docks/wharf thingy, Luca helped us all the way to the boats.
  • Private taxi boat to Venice, fast and awesome
  • Boonses lots of bags
  • Short walk to hotel (Hotel Saturnia) checkin. Very friendly staff, tall guy, Gday mate.
  • Nice old rooms with bide
  • Rooftop/vape garden
  • Shower dressed and out to dinner at recommended restaurant from hotel (maybe check earby for name). Beef and mushrooms and veges. Home made limon cello. Bellicimo
  • Walked to St Mark’s square and Sam got flowers from dodgy indian guy. Give them back!
  • Giant pigeon eating seagulls
  • St Mark’s baccilica tour. Amazing. Almost had whole church to ourselves. Light show not done during daylight hours but done for us.
  • Incredible mossaic flooring everywhere
  • Amazing egyptian like golden tablet huge, need to look up
  • Also went down into lower level crypts.
  • Afer tour Tide came in and flooded the square. Waiters with gumboots. Sam went through, we went around.
  • Water is septic
  • Nightcap at bar inside hotel. Sat next to young Americans and followed their lead with cocktails.

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