Those are our Initial impressions of Venice, Italy.
But first... How did we get here? By ship. This was our last morning on the Cunard liner, Queen Elizabeth. We did not need to get up as early as we did, but things began to get pretty busy around 5 am when the ship came alongside the pier. After breakfast we vacated our stateroom at 8:30 and went down to the Queens room. Our group was called a few minutes before our scheduled time and we walked of the ship, picked up our luggage, gave it to the hotel staff and boarded the water taxi for the 15 minute ride to they hotel. There is a Cunard rep here at the hotel. And there are quite a few of us from the ship staying at the Bauer Hotel. We are right on the Grand Canal and a very short walk from St. Mark's Square. We checked our carry on luggage at the hotel and went out for lunch and a very long but thoroughly enjoyable walk. Checked into our room around 3:30, rested for a while, then walked over to st. Marks basilica. No lines late afternoon. Had a very good and moderately priced dinner at a little cafe near the hotel, and ended up chatting with a couple we met on board. Went for an after dinner walk and ruled out gelato.
Now for some photos:
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