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Wednesday 13 August 2014

Day14: Last day, steaming into Venice...

Wow, what an end to a great holiday! Our ship docked in Venice at midday, and nothing can prepare you for the experience of cruising right through Venice! We were less than 500 metres from the entrance to the Grand Canal, we could see the Bridge of Sighs, Saint Mark's Square and countless other famous landmarks - I suppose it must have looked pretty remarkable to the people on shore too, to see a massive liner passing so close. Due to efforts to protect the city from water damage the port will not be used by big ships from next year, so the experience won't be repeated for much longer. http://youtu.be/9ytB8NDt51Q

We were able to disembark by 1:30pm and we took a motor launch back into the heart of the city. We have been to Venice before, and whilst here then we visited the small island of Murano - this is a lovely place world famous for glassware. We decided to repeat the visit and so set off to find the boarding stage for the appropriate "vaporetto" (water bus). We had absolutely no cash, but assumed we would find a cash machine reasonably easily... not so, we looked for ages and almost gave up before we stumbled across a small ATM on Murano - phew!

Murano was just as stunning as we remembered it, it's like Venice in minitature, almost like a Disney set. There were Glassware shops all around and so Jan began searching "for perhaps something nice" with enthusiasm straight away... After a while we came across one of the least obvious shops almost by accident, inside was a lovely woman who chatted about her business and introduced us to her 74 year mother who was still making glass jewellery, we were invited into the workshop in the back and watched as the old lady demonstrated her art - it was really interesting and we felt that buying something we knew a bit about was very satisfying. http://youtu.be/jAQnaUTJoA0

We returned back to Venice on the vaporetto, and followed the labarythine paths and alleyways back to the shuttle boat - not before stopping for one last gelato and a cool beer, it has been very hot again today.

 

We have to pack tonight for an early flight back to Manchester tomorrow, so when this blog finally gets uploaded we will probably be already home, this holiday has been a great experience and I hope you have enjoyed the blog. We have no plans for our next holiday yet but rest assured when we go "The thoughts of Chairman Riddo" will be there to bore you!

 

 

 

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