Leaving Venice

 

It was a slightly grey afternoon so gave some great contrast of Venice against the sky ….. Past the entrance of the Grand Canal, St Mark’s Square and St Mark’s Basilica and the Doges Palace …. Venice sits on an archipelago of small islands in a lagoon, connected by around 400 bridges and over the past week my legs feel that they may have well been over all of them! ….. now decorated with plunder from the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, and the Doge’s Palace where the doges ruled over the city till 1792. We are off for 7 nights sailing in and around the Greek Islands.

  Leaving the terminal with St Marks in the distance, the view from deck 11 is amazing over Venice.

 

 The entrance to the Grand Canal with the terminal in the distance

 

 The people in St Marks Square and Doges Palace with the domes of St Mark’s Basilica behind.

so let the sailing begin

 

 

as the sun set over the Meditterrian Ocean