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Venice day 5, early morning walk to Piazza San Marco

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I got up and went out before dawn, first navigating the tiny alleys around where we were staying, quiet and rather creepy in the low light. I took the almost obligatory shots of the gondolas bobbing in the lagoon then walked along to where the seagulls were swooping in to find the discards from last night's kitchens. Finally the sun rose and it was time for breakfast.

Venice, day 2, an evening stroll

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We dropped our shopping off at the apartment and walked back to Piazza San Marco. It was January and the sun was retreating quite early in the day. I had wanted to see the lagoon in it's sunset colours and it seemed only right to make some pictures of the bobbing gondolas. Well everyone else has done it!! Next we walked across to the Accademia Bridge and looked at Santa Maria Della Salute before we crossed over for a closer inspection. The bridge was full of people and bounced a lot. The Santa Maria side was quiet and a little eerie. Fortunately on the way back the crowds had thinned out and I was able to use a tripod to take some pictures down the Grand Canal. Santa Maria Della Salute Santa Maria Della Salute

Venice, day 2, out and about around the Grand Canal

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After completing our tour of the Doge's palace we emerged onto Piazza San Marco to a brilliant January sun. The gondolas were bobbing nicely on a limpid sea and we had a look at the Bridge of Sighs we had walked over earlier. We caught the vaporetto up to the Rialto where we had been told there was a food shop -  a Co-op no less, where we bought provisions for the apartment. Everyone in Venice seemed to dragging around wheely suitcases to carry home their shopping, clanking over the cobbles.  On the way home we stopped at our local church, San Stefano, to have a look inside. The Accademia Bridge Ponte di Rialto Our local vaporetto stop at San Simeone San Stefano San Stefano