This morning we woke up to a warm day with some overcast. As we got ready to go up for breakfast, we watched the water traffic. Everything in Venice arrives by boat. In the morning the canal is full of “trucks” bringing in all manner of things. There are refrigerator boats, beer and wine boats, laundry boats etc. Conversely, the outgoing traffic included ones carrying hundreds of sacks of dirty laundry, trash, empty kegs and every other thing consumed during the previoius day. The FedEx boat went by as well as several Poilizia Penitenzaria boats carrying presumably some miscreants.
After having a very nice breakfast on the terrace on the second level of the Hotel we were off to the market across the Canal. What a glorious assortment of produce and seafood. The Venetians eat lots of seafood (no surprise there) and the market was brimming with all manner of sea creatures. There were hundreds of kinds of fish, clams, crabs, eels, squid and octopi. Amazingly, probably because it was all so fresh, there was no smell. The produce was likewise spectacular with luscious fruits, mushrooms of all shapes and colors, bins of olives and artichokes and many things we didn’t recognize.
Having soaking up the sights and smells of the market we headed to the Vaporetto (waterbus) to Murano, a nearby island known for its glassware. There are literally hundreds of shops there selling all kinds of glass. Some had what can only be called works of art. We fell in love with a glass sculpture called Venezia by a master glass blower. So I got to practice using the four handiest words when traveling – Charge it, ship it.
After a late lunch along a little canal we headed back across to Venice and our last evening ashore.
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