After Verona we travelled east towards Venice. We stopped at an Ikea on the way for lunch and guess what...they serve Italian food instead of the usual meatballs! The coffee was better than usual too!
Anyhoo, we camped directly opposite Venice at the end of a strip of land in the lagoon, past the town of Jesolo. We walked the 800m to the ferry terminal and caught the vaporetto (water taxi) to Venice. It was amazing. Despite never having seen Venice I recognised the skyline immediately.
We got off just to the side of Piazza ST Marco and walked to it...the whole place was exceptionally beautiful and under a foot of water! Despite being the off-peak season for toursits it was still busy and felt even worse because we were all herded on to raised walkways to keep out of the water. Did I mention that it was freezing cold and rainy!
The other strange experience was the beggars. I assume they are Romany, but they prostrate themselves on the ground holding out plastic cups and occassionally groaning and rocking. Very strange.
We then took the ferry to Murano, which looks like a run-down version of Venice. The whole place looks ready to fall in to the water. However, the shops full of glass were amazing. Everything from statues made entirely of glass (huge) down to little sweeties in their wrappers!
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