385. Ferrys

Venice

Back into Venice again today. Bought a two day, all day boat pass for the family for the princely sum of one hundred and eighty euros - gulp. On arriving at St Marco we then took the number one ferry up the Grand Canal, stopping at every stop, sometime only fifty metres apart, crossing the canal to and fro. We got off one stop before the Rialto bridge to cross to the supermarket, only to discover that the market crossing was a Gondola crossing so we walked inland around a block to cross at the bridge.

Starting up the Grand Canal

Crossing the Rialto Bridge to the Supermarket

We ate our lunch sitting in a small square near the Rialto bridge. We sat on a small step, on the edge of the square not a thoroughfare or a doorway, well out of the way aware of the local bylaws, not really wanting a two hundred euro fine. There is no litter in Venice now, unlike my last visit and no sign of anybody picking up litter. 

After lunch we carried on up (up?) the canal to just past the railway station.

Many ground floors are abandoned.
Hopefully the MOSE project due for operation starting 2022
will rectify this. 

At the top of the canal the girls purchased these Venetian (Chinese) masks

But not this one

Murano Island Ferry
Love the way in Italy everything is named after
different Ferrari's

Out the top of Venice into the lagoon

Hand rowed fishing boat

Cemetary of Saint Michele in Isolation 

Looking back towards Venice

Murano

The Faro 

Back in Venice in the dark the Rialto Bridge 

Hotel orchestra in St Michael's Square

On the boat home