It was another fine day dawned in Venice with sunshine all round, and after a sleep-in after the utter exhaustion of yesterday, we decided to have a relatively slow day today. As we each had different items remaining on our 'must see' lists, JJ and I set off in different directions, with an agreed time to meet later in the day.My first agenda item was to sort out our transport to the airport tomorrow. This was solved pretty quickly when I found out that w...

Today was an over full day of activities in Venice, with clear blue skies....what a treat, making it easy to take far too many scenic pics of the city, canals and people (mostly quite touristy, traditional pis that many of you already have, so forgive me if you find this just a little ho hum, but as a first time Venice visitor I am sure you will understand me for getting caught up in the city's delights, sights and sounds) as we ventured out on a journey of d...

As I had expected to be the case for the whole trip(which it wasn't), the day dawned (actually, a late night full of technological frustrations meant that I actually slept right through dawn so my comment applies to activities in a post-checkout time slot) with a clear blue sky, a slight breath of wind and warm sunshine. My preparations prior to our 10am checkout were fairly standard, and last nights death of my laptop meant there was no option for responding...

Today started as a soggy one but the weather gods smiled on us and by the time JJ and I ventured forth, the day was fine, a little cool to start with, but then bursts of sunshine among periods of threatening clouds that didn't amount to anything. JJ and I started the day with the optional (ie not included in the tariff) breakfast. What we expected was some was a sort of a buffet perhaps but we were delighted with the array of breakfast goodies that was presen...

JJ and I achieved another successfully executed international transfer today (albeit aless than 2 hour bus trip) and are now in Trieste, Italy. The day startedslowly with a sleep in and agreement that our activity deserved some peacefulslumber time – so no problems there. So after the (very comfortable catch upwith electronic contacts without stepping out of bed (wonderful Wifi everywhere)– the one reason to be thankful for the time difference with ho...