Painfully up at 5am this morning for the long drive to Venice. I managed to herd my passengers down to the bus and then we set off, back in the direction of Florence. I smiled to myself as I went passed it, imagining myself dancing with Phillipo again. We drove for most of the day and arrived in Mestre at about 4pm, I had tried to bring our guided tour forward, but the guide was not very co-operative. Gary and I walked everyone to the bus stop, got 46 people ...

We had decided today that we were not going to walk everywhere as our feet were still hurting from the previous day. We decided to take the water bus (Al Vaporato) everywhere today, we bought a twenty four hour ticket for about seven Euros and climbed aboard at Ferrovia station. The Al Vaporato just seemed to crash into the stations and skid along the canals, it was a hot day and I was sitting outside watching all the magnificent scenery go by, fantastic old chu...

We came down with a large bump onto the tarmac at Treviso airport near Venice, we got off and I had never seen such a small airport in all my life. It was even smaller than Coolangatta Airport on the Gold Coast in Australia. There was one conveyer belt and you went through and they barely even looked at your passport, they stamped mine, but not Mum's. We got out into the main area which was no bigger than my old bosses office and we did not have any Euros, we ass...