I started out the morning with an early morning photo shoot, where I re-traced our steps from Accademia and went further to the Church of Campo Santa Margarita, and grabbed a Ferry back across the Grand Canal before returning for breakfast.
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Eunice was keen to go to the Jewish Ghetto, so we figured out which Ferry we needed to get, then which stop to get to, and a vague idea of where we needed to go to get there. We snapped these photos along the way.
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We wandered through this new section of Venice to find the life here was less opulant than we had seen elsewhere, and conjected that the working class people lived and worked here. Although we had wanted to see this, we found it to be a simply poorer version of the areas we had already visited, so found our way back to the Ferry while we took these photos.
We took the Ferry to the Rialto Markets, this time to the food section, and sampled some of the local foods. Here are some of the photos from this part of the journey.
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When wandering back, we found ourselves at a familiar spot, within walking distance of the hotel, so walked back there to spend an hour or so before going out again.
When we ventured out again, we looked for the place where we supposed to meet our tour; asking for directions seemed to be hopeless as we got three different answers from several different people. Eventually I asked a guy who told me we were late, and that the boat had already left. This was a bit disappointing as he was one of the people we asked previously to help us out. Venetians seem very reluctant to help, as we had previously experienced with an employee of the Gallarie Dell'accademia, and several instances where Eunice had asked for directions and simply got a shoulder in her face. We fumed over this for a while, but headed to the Cafe Florin, where we had an indulgent Hot Chocolate and Tea.
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I suggested we should simply catch the Ferry to Burrano (as we'd seen the other part of the tour, Murano, as a matter of fate earlier in the week), and tried to figure out a route to get there. We encountered another rude Venetian behind the desk of the Ferry Service, who impolitely informed us we were at the wrong stop and needed to go to the next church and catch the erry from there. Although it didn't set us in the right mood for the trip, we went to the stop she suggested and enquired again; fortunately this person was very helpful, and told us we neede to get the large Ferry to Port Satiago(?) before transferring to the LN for Burrano. I'm glad there are some pleasant people in Venice, as another one similar to the two we had previously encountered today would have been the worst thing possible. We snapped these pictures along the way, including stopping for lunch at the port.
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Due to the inital delay with the Ferry, and a half hour wait between the connecting Ferry, the trip took almost two hours to complete, biut when we got to Burrano, it was worth the wait. We took these photos, including a beautiful sunset whilst there.
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We decided we better trek back to the mainland, as it was fast approaching 7PM, and had been informed the last Ferry ran at around 11PM, so didn't want to miss another boat today. We asked one of the locals who was more than happy to help, albeit she didn't speak a word of English, and gave all instructions in Italian; however thanks to her enthusiasm, we broke the language barrier and managed to get the story from her that we had a similar journey, transferring at Santiori(?) to get back to the mainland.
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We arrived at Santori and overheard a French couple asking about the boat to Lido (which was one of the stops on our journey) and they said the next Ferry was due in five minutes. Catching this we headed to Lido, but then there was some confusion as to whether we were meant to get off the Ferry or stay on, and we met an American couple from New Jersey that were in the same prediciment.
It turned out that we didn't need to change Ferry's so had a conversation with the Americans, who were also on their honeymoon, having been married on the Saturday prior to the start of our journey. The jouney went a lot quicker with this conversation going on, and seemed to be shorter back to our hotal, where they were also staying; we bid them goodnight before we headed back to our room, to check timetables and started to pack for our journey by EUrail to Paris tomorrow.
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