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Island Hopping in Venice
... half hour, you have to wonder if this might be an economical decision to extract the $. After all, everybody had already either bought a ticket or travel pass.
By the time I reached F de Nuove, this time opting to walk from there instead of the long ride back, it was almost 6pm. It was interesting to wander this part of the island, and returned back to the hostel to meet new folks before we headed out to dinner and my first pizza in Italy. Yum!
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Venice Wandering
... Lido, home of the Venice Film Festival. As the waterbus stopped at every stop, it took almost an hour to get there from Rialto, but it was a nice break from the pedestrian and tourist laden Venice proper. There are actually cars and buses on Lido, with very few canals. There's even a seawall you can walk on if you turn left after leaving the waterbus. I tried to find the beach, but as the day was ending, ended up not going as I didn't realize it was just another 5 minute ...
Viva Italia!
... between 530-730 where you can get a drink and buffet for 5 euro. Now before you get too excited, the buffet consists of pasta and a selection of bruschetta, some topped with tomato, other cheese, pesto, tuna. The sun had just set on our way back, so we spent some time people watching on the Rialto bridge. Not bad for a 1st evening in Venice. Tomorrow, explore Venice, the next day checking out the other islands and day 3 in Verona before heading south to Florence.
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And find one we did, it was great, a little bottle shop that sold wine by the glass and little tiny canapés…….we got a glass of red and a glass of white, a plate of six little bits of salami, cheese and four your guess is as good as mine bits and stood against a shelf, it was delicious, totally made up for the worst pizza in the world we had had the night before and restored our faith in Italian food. Nonna was making up new canapés every few minutes so ...
Back in Venice - wow!
... travel 1st class which entitles us to complementary refreshments, but it seems that the locals often risk the consequence of travelling either without a ticket or travelling in 1st class with 2nd class tickets. It appears to be a case of bluff and they seem to get away with it We have not seen anyone challenged though we suspect that some may not have paid 1st class tickets. Sitting in the wrong seats is also a commonplace event and they don't like ...

