Twelfth Day of Cruise — Venice
Last day on the high seas.
Started this morning with a swim around 8:30 a.m., Found a pair of earbuds on the bottom of the pool. How somebody could lose those there I am not quite sure…
And then came back to the room for showers and breakfast at raffles about 9:30. While at breakfast, or the Raffles Court Terrace, we saw a few dolphins jumping off the port side, before they were passed by the ship and left way to the rear of the ship.
Then we spent 30 plus minutes online trying to get our boarding passes for tomorrow’s flight, only to be told that something for one or more person in our party required us to check-in in person at the airport.
Now it is swimming and lolling around the deck at the pool before lunch and the cruise into Venice.
We had time before the ship was to go through the canals to the port, so we went and packed up. Got the room done before 1 p.m. — wasn’t supposed to go through the canals until 1:30. But when we got back up on deck, the ship had already gone through the canals, so we missed taking the pictures of the passing through.
So we did Lunch at Raffles and waited for the all clear to go ashore in Venice.
We walked into Venice, The Port terminal is near the causeway with the mainland. Not there in ancient days, the causeway is a land-transport connection to the mainland, providing both rail, car and cycle connection. You see a lot of cars and motorcycles, parked here in Venice. It is the last place you will see either. Everything from here on is boat or foot. Not even bicycles — too many steps up and down the bridges for anything with wheels.
From Piazza Roma we wended through side streets until we ended at the point east of the Academy.
From there we walked back to the Academy bridge, and over toward St. Mark’s Piazza.
After St. Mark’s we found the Rialto Bridge, and then along the grand canal to the next bridge, crossing it, and then crossing back again at the final bridge to Piazza Roma. From there we took the people mover back to the Port.
Between the Rialto and the port Nathan discovered this mask shop, where you could actually see the craftsman making the masks out of leather. Nathan had to take close-up pictures of one set of masks, because they reminded him of Bishop, one of the Armada Elite Officers in Pirate101.
While in Venice we enjoyed the side streets best, and didn’t care for the unshaded streets or the high shopping districts. A lot of nice Venice out there outside the shopping areas.
Now we are back on the ship. We dined at Gardens, I took a swim, played crazy 8s and chess with Carly and Nathan. Betsy is back in the room sleeping while Carly and I are snacking at Blue Lagoon and Nathan is snacking at Raffles.
At The Rainbow 