Our flight to Frankfurt left Venice airport at 8 pm so I had the brilliant idea of dropping off our rental car early in the day, checking in our luggage, storing our hand luggage and taking the vaporetto into Venice for lunch and a little wandering around. We had spent 5 days in Venice on our last trip so didn't really feel the need to do much sightseeing.
The first indication of trouble was when Lufthansa refused to check us in earlier than 3 hours before our flight. So we schlepped all our bags down to the luggage storage facility and left them there (after much security screening and id-checking). Then we headed off to buy vaporetto tickets - well it turns out that the vaporetto to San Marco takes an hour and ten minutes. Which would have given us maybe an hour in Venice before we had to head back for our flight.
So we took a water taxi for €100 direct to San Marco - which the girls just loved. We cruised by the Danieli, where we had waterfront rooms last time, and glided into San Marco in about 30 minutes. By this time it was past 2:30 pm and we went in search of lunch, only to be turned away by a few restaurants. We finally ended up at the cafe of the Bauer Palazzo hotel, overlooking the Grand Canal. We had a long and pleasant lunch watching the gondolas and boats go by.
After lunch, we wandered through San Marco, which seemed to be less beautiful than in the past. Perhaps I just like it better in the mornings and evenings. Or perhaps the huge section of walled off construction had something to do with it.
A little more shopping, some gelato and a stroll over the Rialto Bridge. Then we boarded a water taxi many hundreds of euros poorer, and headed back to the airport in good time for our flight to Frankfurt, then on to Bangkok.
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I disliked all the ads masking the construction. The Bridge of Sighs was a disappointment.
I couldn't agree more - the Bridge of Sighs was almost unbearably ugly, I could not stand the Toy Watch ads...
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