9am Now That's More Respectable

It up again and to a bright sunnies day with a expected top of 23deg a great temperature for the walking tourist in Venice.

We make our way off the mother ship following some of the staff as everyone else has left the ship, but as we are coming back in a weeks time for a week we can afford the relaxed exit this morning. The docks area is so well set up for the vast number of tourist, we make our way to the people mover (light rail) and for 1 euro & 2min journey to get us to the other side of the customs area well worth it. Most people would have take the vaparetto from the docks straight to San Marco but our mission today is to go the other direction towards the Pizzale Roma. This is a car park area on the out skirts of venice and it is the meet place for some of next weeks cooking classes. 

Great that one off the list and from there we will make our way up the grand canal to San Samuelle the place that we will be staying for our week in Venice after the cruise. We find it after a short vaperetto ride and a few dead end lanes only 1200mm wide and with the old walls of the houses towering up around you to 3 stories high. The lanes "Calla" great another word to add to the list is where we discover a great deli, funky restaurant (coming back to that one next week) and a local bar where we decide to stop and have lunch but with mixed results! Note to-self don't reorder pasta with fagioli sauce (beans) unless you are a great lover of pasta that looks like magots drowning in a brown hmmmm I will leave that up to your imagination...the  pasta texture was great if you closed your eyes but the bean slurry not so good to look at, tasted ok but don't need to revisit that one! The afternoon was spent walking the Calla's checking out the Glass shops but that will all have to wait till next week.

So time for Cappuccino and some Italian bubbly in San Marco than it back to the mother ship on a small boat again sailing up the Grand Canal.