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View from our room in the hotel.09:01:02
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Yes, they had baked beans at breakfast. I was reminded of that Monty Python travel agents sketch.09:35:40
Yes I had an English breakfast. The sweet croissants that usually feature in Italian breakfasts get boring pretty quickly.
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The view from the Molino Stucky's rooftop swimming pool.10:03:31
The venice skyline across the water.10:04:09
Chie having a quick lounge on the, err, loungers.11:22:40
Another stroll along the waterside of the Giudecca, this time to get to the vaporetto stop. Here's a dog running along the quayside.
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A man in a boat.11:24:54
Me on one of the little bridges on the Giudecca.11:25:09
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At the vaporetto stop.
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On the vaporetto.11:43:50
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San Giorgio Maggiore - one of several churches designed by Palladio in Venice.
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View across to St. Mark's,11:53:53
Close up on the Doge's Palace and the Camapnile of St. Mark's.11:54:54
I think this is a sort of lighthouse.
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Inside San Giorgio Maggiore.12:04:52
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Some art by Tintoretto.
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Diocletian windows.12:21:45
Back on the vaporetto to La Palanca again now.12:23:14
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Il Redentore - another Palladian church.12:29:10
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This one had an entrance fee so we decided not to go in.12:31:59
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Prix Quality Discount Italiano.12:45:26
I like these posts.12:47:28
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Lunch at Snack Bar La Palanca - here's another spritz (this was even nicer than the one last night).13:06:18
Some of the locals at La Palanca.13:08:53
Chie and her lunch.13:09:06
Me and my lunch.
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Coffee.13:28:12
Cute sugar sachets with zodiac signs on.13:28:24
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Outside La Palanca.
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I think this is the owner - lovely chap.13:38:52
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DHL boat.13:55:20
Outside the Molino Stucky now, ready to transfer to the next hotel.
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From the vaporetto - a luxury yacht.14:41:02
Our next hotel, by the station, the Hotel Abbazzio. This was an abbey originally, and still has some features which suggest this, like the pulpit in the lounge.
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Exposed beams in our room.14:47:28
View from our room.14:47:36
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Starting out now on our walk from our hotel to the Rialto, through the windy little streets of Venice.15:32:31
Byzantine arches.15:33:35
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Campanile.15:39:49
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Really old looking columns here.15:48:27
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An ice cream break.
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The Grand Canal.
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Very narrow alleyway.16:10:49
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This looks like a pretzel.16:13:16
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Rialto bridge.16:29:19
Around the Rialto market.16:30:11
Apparently this is where the concept of bank credit was invented.
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Corte del Milion - where Marco Polo lived - who was teased for exagerated taies of his travels by being called "Mr Millions".
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Rialto Bridge again.18:23:57
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Venice Casino.18:25:17
Houses on the Grand Canal.18:26:40
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The Ca d'Oro.
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Cantina do Mori, the first of four bacaro on our bacaro crawl (I scouted a couple of these out by myself first while Chie was having a nap).18:43:44
Outside Cantina do Mori.18:45:29
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These chimneys are fashioned after Byzantine capitals.18:54:45
The fish market.18:58:30
Looks like this used to be a shop.19:07:57
The staff in All' Arco - I think this was my favourite bacaro.
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Outside All' Arco.19:32:15
Chie joined me now, so back to Cantina do Mori. Here Chie has a couple of ciccheti - sort of the Venetian answer to tapas.19:41:42
...and back to All' Arco again. I have a spritz, Chie has a Gingerino (sort of an non-alcoholic Campari) and we have a couple of ciccheti to share.19:42:00
In All' Arco with my spritz.
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Next stop was Do Spade, where more cichetti and spritzes ensued.20:15:19
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Outside Do Spade.20:26:33
We wanted to get the traghetto but they'd already finished for the day.
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Sunset over the Grand Canal.20:42:24
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The fourth and final bacaro of our crawl - Alla Vedova (Ca d'Oro).20:57:19
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Pilot Cat??!21:18:19