If you would like to see details about our journey, check out our itinerary and our bike route.
The heat finally broke. It rained overnight, and temps were now in the mid-80s.
For breakfast, we walked 4 minutes to a patisseria for honey-, cherry-, and pistacchio-filled cornetti (croissants) with cappuccini. On the way back to the apartment, we stopped at a grocery store for breakfast fixings for tomorrow.
At 8:30, we rode to the bike shop and Ken left his bike there for a new valve stem, a sealant top-up, and air. We walked a few blocks to the bus station and collected his new public transportation card. The bike was ready to go when we got back to the shop.
Back at apartment, we reviewed our routes for the next week and loaded them on our phones and Wahoo devices, and updated our itinerary and checked in with hosts. Then Ken relaxed while I worked on the blog.
About 16:00, we got dressed up and caught the number 2 bus back to Venice. There, we boarded the number 1 vaporetto for a tour of the Grand Canal, accompanied by the Rick Steves audio tour on our phones.
An hour later, we debarked at Piazza di San Marco, stopped at a little bar for cicchetti and drinks, then explored the square and the little streets around it. I found Murano glass earrings to add to my travel collection of one pair. Ken found more cicchetti. We both found gelato.
At 20:30–already past our bedtime—we took our seats at Chiesa di San Vidal and settled in for a chamber orchestra concert of mostly Vivaldi pieces. The church was small, the orchestra excellent.
The concert ended at 22:30. We walked about half an hour through the dark alleys, canal paths, and bridges to the Piazzale Roma, and caught the number 2 bus back to our apartment.
A long day for us.
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| Eating cicchetti in a small bar. |
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| Piazza di San Marco. |
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| The Ponte di Rialto. |
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| An emergency vehicle speeding by with lights and sirens going. |
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| Traffic circle near the patisseria in Mestre. |
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| The vaporetti had stopped running by the time the concert ended at 22:30, and we had to walk back to the Piazzale Roma. The streets were quiet and dark, with just a few people still making their way home. |
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| The Chiesa di San Vidal is a small church with surprisingly good acoustics. The concert was excellent. |
