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 to see all the streets are actually water. Then off for a nice group dinner, pasta, pork and roasties, fruit and ice cream. Then had a wander through St Marco square, lovely boat ride back to hotel, spectacular to see all the city lit up at night time. Back to hotel at about 10pm. Few drinks down at the patio bar and off to bed, after catching up on the riots in London thanks to BBC news which is the only channel we can understand.
Intense hot sunny day 30-35° again !!!!!