Another day in Venicen

We had a little bit of a sleep in today and then headed to the restaurant next door for a bit of breakfast. The shuttle bus picked us up at 11:15am and we headed back to the island for the day.

We took the same kind of approach as yesterday and just wandered around for a bit with our first challenge to find some lunch. Yes - pasta & pizza again!!! While eating we did a bit of people watching & today we also got to watch a dozen pidgeons playing around with scraps that people were throwing to them. This reminded us of something an American couple staying in our hotel had said about feeding pidgeons in a square. So we set off to try and find San Marco Piazza.

As the photos show we had a great time with the pidgeons and for a few days we will have the claw marks on our arms as souveniers of the experience. We did bathe in the anticeptic wash when we were done though :)

We then continued wandering around for a few more hours. A very different Venice today to what we saw yesterday. Today there was a regatta on and the crowds were crazy.

As the day went on we found more & more that it is really hard to tell where you are going, where you have been & it is even harder to work out where you are on a map. Around 5:30 we thought we should look at heading back towards the meeting point (we wanted the extra time to be able to stroll back) So we headed off in the direction we thought it was..... then we hit the edge of the island :) wrong way – go back!!!

It turned out we had been walking for about an hour in the wrong direction - I guess that is what you get when you don't follow your map :) But it was good mistake because we got to see a whole new area and then another new area on our way back to the pick up point :)

We are back in the hotel now... nursing some very sore feet (Hours walking - 6.5 Approx Kms covered - 18) but the two days provided an amazing adventure that we are glad we got to experience.

Next we move on to Salzburg - where we do the Sound of Music tour :)

Happy Fathers Day to our dads and to all the other dads out there reading this (as we have had quite a few messages from strangers reading the blog)

Good luck to Anita & Craig who will probably become parents tomorrow (well today Bris time) - we are with you in spirit as you go through the experience.

Love to all

Hugs to Bundy & Haydos

Cheers

Phil & Nic