Woke up slightly seedy......wonder why? Were we actually drinking wine out of paper cups? I think I vaguely remember something about it.....the downside of being able to buy and drink alcohol anywhere here in Italy! Challenge to pack for the flight, then close the cases...... Beautiful setting by the canal for farewell to Venice breakfast......sprinkling rain this am. Gondoliers and water taxis busily coming and going...... We are taking the water bus to the ...

Woke up to deathly quiet, no traffic, no sirens, so peaceful, strange for a city..... Roger woken up with a dizzy spell this morning....waiting for stemitil to crank in. Fingers crossed it is not the begining of anything horrible. The quiet has broken, the gondola 'drivers' are busily chatting and cleaning their gondolas..... Breaky at the main hotel on the Grand Canal, what a spot.....I asked if they happened to gave any GF toast......next thing out came a ba...

Woke up to deathly quiet, no traffic, no sirens, so peaceful, strange for a city..... Roger woken up with a dizzy spell this morning....waiting for stemitil to crank in. Fingers crossed it is not the begining of anything horrible. The quiet has broken, the gondola 'drivers' are busily chatting and cleaning their gondolas..... Breaky at the main hotel on the Grand Canal, what a spot.....I asked if they happened to gave any GF toast......next thing out came a ba...

Up early to farewell the cruise and our new buddies......been great 12 days, extraordinary how much we have seen in that time......quite a pilgrimage. Spectacular morning, warm and sunny despite what they predicted. Met a lot of nice people on the cruise, not all Yanks are painful, however they are 'different'. Definitely better to have 'anytime dining', that way you sit with different crowd each time, or by yourselves if you choose. Even though there were qui...

Lazy me slept while Roger is off exercising at the gym! We will both be starving ourselves when we get back, so hard not to over indulge.....will be eating a jar of vegemite first though! Cruising towards Venice up the Adriatic sea, cool and overcast. Due to dock at 1300. Time to start packing up...bags out by 2300 tonight, disembarking 0900 tomorrow. Oh my Godfather, if that wasn't the most spectacular sail-in ever! Cruising through the harbour into Venice, 16 s...