We bought a whole day pass for the vaporetto (water bus) and travelled to Piazza San Marco, it's a nice cheap way to travel the Grand Canal and see some of the beautiful sites. Nice square, but once again ruined by advertising - must be an Italian thing. We visited the museum in St. Mark's Basilica and climbed out onto the balcony into the hot sun (Italy has been very hot so far), we saved our visit to inside the Basilica for later in the day as it was closed in the morning.Back on the ferry for a trip to Lido (not much there), then back to the Piazza for the Doges Palace and the Basilica proper. As part of the Doges Palace visit we walked across the Bridge of Sighs, unfortunately there wasn't much to be seen from the outside later on - ruined by advertising again! We walked back to the hotel via the Rialto Bridge and Market - K decided that souvenir shopping was in order, M decided that he'd rather relax and eat some gelati.
In the evening we headed back to the Piazza for the entertainment - there were a number of groups of musicians with piano and strings playing classical music - nice if you like that sort of thing, and it was certainly a lot quieter then earlier in the day, no hordes of tourists to contend with, and the evening trip on the vaporetto gave us great views of the buildings lit up along the canal.
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