Mom and I were up early to get ready to go to the airport. We had breakfast at a nice little coffee shop around the corner from our apartment.
We walked back down to Arsenale which is where we caught the water shuttle to the airport. The shuttle took about an hour an 15 minutes. On the shuttle we met a nice lady who was born in Newcastle. My mom is going to Newcastle in July so they talked about places to go in Newcastle.
Mom checked in and then we spent about a half an hour together before she had to go through security. I waited about an hour and then Rick, Nancy, and Mike can out from immigration and customs. We got back on the water shuttle to go to Venice.
I showed them to the apartment and they spent a few minutes getting settled. Then we went out walking. We walked all over Venice, we did almost 18,000 steps today. They had not slept much so they either needed to keep moving or they would fall asleep. We started by walking by our apartment from our visit 2 years ago. Then we went to San Marco square where Mike and Nancy got a gelato. They we walked over to Rialto bridge stopping in a few shops along they way (but not buying anything). Nancy and Mike were loving all the little alleyways, waterways, old buildings, bridges, everything; there’s really no place like Venice.
At the bridge we stopped for a snack and a glass of wine along the grand canal. We enjoyed watching all the water traffic on the canal. Refreshed we headed back to the apartment. We made several provisioning stops.
That evening we had our usual dinner of bread, cheese, meat, and wine. Yummy! They all stayed awake until 8:30. Pretty good on just a few hours of sleep.
Here are some pictures from our walk through Venice.
