Venice

 Friday 12th October


Early start for me today ....   catching the bus to Vicenza and then train to Venice. I actually had to set the alarm - we've been sleeping so late! Frank catching up with relatives prior to our departure.
Venice same as usual...  teeming with people, but stunning, beautiful, unlike anything else and so atmospheric.  I had a lovely day wandering the "calles", some v busy on the beaten track (S.Lucia train station to St Mark's Square) but off it, almost deserted.  I even found a couple of churches I hadn't seen before. One was San Geremia which houses the remains of St Lucy/ Lucia of Syracuse, Sicily, a martyr in the 1st c ad. Apparently she is revered as a saint in most christian religions, perhaps the train station is named after her? In another church I saw  a Last Supper painting by Tintoretto..  it looked like a rowdier affair than Da Vinci's version which Marian and I saw last year in Milan.   A day in Venice always seems to end in a mad rush to the station   probably due to   many dead ends and wrong turns.

Busy Venice street

Beautiful Venice canal