We made it home on Saturday afternoon just before Hurricane Sandy arrived and we were very lucky to ride out the storm with no damage. We have friends and family out of power still after a week since the storm passed through.
We left Venice on Saturday morning with tidal floods through the streets. We walked on raised platforms out the water-covered hotel lobby and found the streets drowning in over a foot of water. The hotel concierge had an Excel spreadsheet with all the weekend tide charts at the hotel's private water taxi landing; seems like they have plenty of experience dealing with it. Mary & I both want to go back to Venice when we have plenty of time on our hands.
Our water taxi had a little trouble making it under the canal bridges with the water levels so high, but we got to the airport in plenty of time for our our flight home. It felt great after checking our bags, our US Air flight was direct and I was almost done worrying about getting home ok.
We both agreed the trip was wonderful, but it was good to be home again. Mary was away for over a month and she was anxious to visit her cousin Barbara, and very happy to spend some time with her talking about Ireland and our cruise.
Thanks to all my friends who followed along with my travel blog .... it was fun to post updates and I felt a little better connected from so far away.
Love to all ..... John
