Sunday 15 November We don't have great plans for the day. We eat breakfast in the dining room and then head out to wander around. There are gondola after gondola full with Asian tourists going by right outside our hotel. The call out greetings to us. It's 80€ per ride! I wonder where their money comes from! We start to walk to the square, but there is so much to see it's a little slow. Malcolm gets cold so we go back to the hotel to get his jacket and hat. We...

Saturday 14 November It was a good night and the room is much warmer than last night. We get the news about the horror in Paris. We have breakfast and get ready to leave by 10am. We head to our new hotel where we are instantly made to feel welcome. We leave our bags and then head out to a square somewhere where we are to meet the free walking tour. It's long- a few hours! But interesting. We see lots of great things. After it's over we wander around ourselves c...

Friday 13 November We are up early, breakfasted and gone before 7:30. The train is nearly 30min to the bus station. We arrive with plenty of time. It's chilly and good to get on the bus. The journey is about 4 hours. The scenery isn't as lovely as I thought and there seem to be a lot of commercial buildings scattered around the place. As we get closer to the sea there is a thick fog that makes it harder to see much. We take the long bridge out to Venice city cen...