Today was a sleep in day - yeah right. Were able to but couldn't. We had to get our books read so we could hand them back in before we got off the boat, so we had to slow down and relax, what a shame. Had a swim in the saltier-than-a-fishes-armpit solarium pool. Had our last dinner with Bayram, Munsheek and Constantine which was very enjoyable. The show was Argentinian Gauchos with Whips and Flails, it was a wicked show and those fellas were hard cases. We hit th...

Didn't have to be up early today, but as we have been accustomed to getting up early, we were up, packed and out of our room by 9.30! Sad aye. Were able to leave our bags in the hotel and head out to local internet cafe to do somemore blogs and back up photos (unfortunatly we found out later that we left the data stick in the computer what drongos we are). After lunch we made our way to the bus station via the water taxi and got a transfer to the cruise boat t...

Sleep in a wee bit, on bus at 9.30 and taken in by Kev and Susan. It was overcast and windy and comparitively cool, but fined up in arvo and was a scorcher again.Glass blowing demonstration first thing, the master made a wee horse and flower vase, was really neat to watch. Stuff was really dear but nice, got photo of aquarium which cost $32k. Walked around to find the hotel we staying at on next visit. Then had picinic lunch beside back street-canal. Rode the ACT...

Early start to miss traffic, ready to go by 7, long driving day. Short stops for lunch along the way. Got to Russott Hotel at 4ish, lovely palacial hotel, graciously old but lovely, quick change and bath washing then off to Venice (10min drive then 15min boat ride) had a traditional Gondola ride with some wine through the canals, too rocky for Debbie as it was quite windy and will all the other boats on the Grande Canal was hardly romantic. Beautiful city, funny...