Our second day trip running was a visit to the sinking city of Venice, we arrived via the worlds least comfortable night train from Vienna at around 9am. We strolled across town to Saint Mark’s square, the most famous square in Venice and there we were just 4 in a massive horde of tourists, locals seemed almost nonexistent.
We started with a Gondola journey in true Venetian fashion, despite me saying to Mick “you can go to Venice without taking a Gondola, just watch me”. However we got it for a fairly ok 80 euro, and I was quite happy to see Venice from the Canals. The boat was 11 metres long but the helmsman seemed almost too happy to just bang around corners keeping the entire gunwale just inches from contact with the cold stone.
After the Gondola we got some food before bailing up the coast to a park where we chilled, chatted, and eventually I ended up swimming for about 30 seconds in the sea, which was a really really awful idea, but meh you only live twice.
After that we decided to visit the famous Saint Mark’s basilica where we took the free English tour, which I very nearly slept through, needless to say I am wrecked. The church is truly beautiful though, despite the sinking floor creating a stone wave effect.
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