Sunday in Venice

Before our travel began today Greg and I walked a few minutes to the beach from our hotel on the Adriatic Ocean. It was so interesting to see rows and rows of beach chairs with individual umbrellas. The rows went back from the water's edge to the establishment that was renting them. It was interesting to see so many rows of beach chairs lined up behind each other. It was hard to imagine that many people would be willing to go to the beach and just see the back of other people's chairs! Then we traveled to Venice and much to our amazement it was a direct trip....no wrong turns and Greg didn't even kill the engine on our VW Passat straight shift! (killed it 3X his last driving day!) Venice was unbelievably crowded because it was Sunday and they had a Historic Regatta today and it's a yearly event that even the Italians attend. We did get into St. Mark's Basilica easily thanks to Rick Steve's travel hints and then walked around many back streets of Venice. This trip has definitely not been for the "faint of heart", because we have WALKED and WALKED many miles every day! Europe definitely is not handicapped friendly! We had a light sprinkle of rain today and it was very welcome because it has been HOT! Tonight we discovered we are in the Asian part of Mestre (which is right outside of Venice next to the train station) so we had "Cinese" food and it was delicious! Tomorrow we will take a boat to Murano and looking forward to that! Have I mentioned Italy is not cheap? Greg paid $9.50 for a McDonald's Big Mac meal today! All the bathrooms or WC's or Toilette's as they say, charge $1.50 to use! Greg said he stayed a few minutes longer than he needed just to get his money's worth! It has been fun though and we are all well and still having a great time! Cannot download pictures from this hotel! Sorry!