We pulled intoVenice on Wednesday afternoon, exactly on time. It was fun for me watching as we approached the city from sea. The ship sailed right passed St Mark's Plaza on it way to the cruise ship terminal, the weather was clear, cool and perfect.
We took a walking tour around the major sites, St Mark's Square, the Grand Canal, Rialto Bridge and of course a tour of a Venetian Glass factory & outlet. Their glass was really beautiful but with their prices being so outrageous, only a middle east oil sheik or Michael Jackson would buy anything. We spent our last night onboard the Norwegian Spirit and we both agreed the ship and the whole cruise turned out to be a really special memory.
Thursday morning we left the ship and took a water taxi to our hotel, just a block from St Mark's. The many, many water taxis all looked chaotic at first but it was a pretty efficient (if a bit pricey) way to get around. I'll still reserve judgment until we get off the water taxi that takes us to the airport on Saturday morning. If we get there dry I'll be happy.
Later today (Thursday) we'll take a walk with our camera and see how much of the center city we can cover on foot.
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