Sunday 30th August - Cruise Day 1 We had to check out of our hotel this morning and go along the road to another hotel to pay our account. We weren't happy with the standard of our tiny room cause when we booked the room 6 months ago, the photo of the room was huge and in fact rooms 1 and 2 were what were on the web site. We eventually caught the Vaperetto to get to the Cruise Port area. All went right until the second to last stop when we were ordered of...

Saturday 29th August pm We had to find a pharmacy and eventually on the corner of a canal there was one where Jannie bought some throat lozenges. Murano is a lovely little island where at every turn there is a photo opportunity. Click, click, click. Lunch time and we were hot as and could all feel a beer coming on. Stopped and looked at several cafe/restaurants but eventually found an air conditioned one through the back and all had beer and salads, ex...

Saturday 29th August - Murano Jane & Paul arrived about 4.30pm and have a big bedroom and we complained about ours to Paulo the worker whom we checked in with and he offered to shift us the next day but was too much hassle so we just stayed put for one more night. Last time we were in Venice we went to the island of Barano, which is the "Lace Island" but we hadn't been to Murano which is the "Glass Island" We went down to the ferry stop and bought tic...

Friday 28th August pm We got here ahead of Jane and Paul who aren't due in till the 4.35pm train so they will be another hour in getting to us. Jannie and I were beggared lugging the cases up steps, down steps, onto the boat, off of the boat , over a step bridge over a canal, back over the same bridge cause we had gone too far and finally up the narrow stairs to our room. Have a wash and changed our clothes then we went out to the waterfront and had a beer a...

Friday 28th August – Milan to Venice By train from Milan Central to Venice. We got up around 7.00am and packed and then went to breakfast. Afterwards paid our bill and got the hotel to call us a cab to go to the train station. It’s a big railway station and we had a wait of about 30minutes before we could board our train. It left bang on time and away it sped. Two and a half hours later we eased our way across the causeway to Venezia Santa Lucia. We got o...