Following an uneventful flight we arrived by water taxi at our Hotel Al Ponte Antico, practically next door to the Rialto Bridge. We’ll say more about the hotel later. After freshening up we were off for lunch at a local Osteria (inn) and a walk about Piazza San Marco. The place was packed with tourists and pigeons, but the Basilica and the Doge’s Palace are so beautiful that it makes fighting the crowd worth it. Unfortunately after that the lack of sleep caught up with us and we had to go back for a nap.
In the late afternoon, we opened the two large windows in our room and sat overlooking the Grand Canal. Our room was nearly at water level so we had a spectacular view of the city passing by conducting its various businesses.
After a lovely dinner at a small restaurant we had discovered last year, we made it an early night.
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