We met some new travelers at breakfast this morning –a couple from Colorado and another couple from Chicago. Another couple, from Boston, returned home today. Matia, the guest house owner, said that he had a real difficult time understanding their English. It was really funny hearing an Italian imitate a Boston accent!
Matia knew that our flight out of Venice didn’t leave until late in the evening. He very kindly came up to our room as we were about to check out, and said that we could leave our backpacks in our room for the day so that we wouldn’t have to lug them around town. Not only that, he told the maid not to clean our room so that we could use it if we wanted to come back and take an afternoon nap and rest before we left. We were very thankful to him for helping us out and for his immense hospitality.
So, off we headed for the Fish Market! This place is very similar to Soulard. The fruits and vegetables come in so many varieties and colors that it looks like a kaleidoscope! The fresh fish stands were in a nearby section. We saw everything from octopus and squid to little sardines and…well…things we had never seen before. Some people walked around holding their noses. Again, this was a sensory and cultural delight!
On our way back to our guest house, we stopped off for a slice of pizza and then headed up to our room to rest a little. Our internal clocks were about to be surprised because we are scheduled to arrive in London at 12:15 AM and not catch our train to Bath until 8:00 AM.
After sleeping for a little, we headed out for our last scoop of gelato before leaving at 6:30 to catch the water bus for Marco Polo Airport. Right on schedule, it pulled up to the dock at 7:00, we boarded, sat down, and away we went! We left a little early for the 40 minute ride to the airport because if we had left any later we wouldn’t have been able to see all the little islands and villas around Venice. The sun was slowly descending on the horizon in a dreamy haze, and in the distance, dark clouds were gathering. I think it will rain in Venice tonight. These water buses are really something in that they follow a regular route just like cars do on a road. The ride was really nice. Once we arrived at the airport, we began the 7 minute walk to the terminal. Since this isn’t an international airport, it is delightfully small and do-able. We couldn’t check in for about an hour, so we did what we had to do – eat more pizza of course! Well we had to eat dinner didn’t we? And besides, we had some Euros left over that needed to be used before we left Italy. So, when you see us when we get back home, cut us a little slack would ya? It might take some time to take off a few pounds of ice-cream and pizza.
So, farewell beautiful Italy! We hope to see you again!
Housing along canal with Italian flag
Fish market area - just about anything you can think of that lives in the sea
Small fish, squid, & octopus
Shrimp and other interesting sea food
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