We checked out of the Naples hotel at 8:15, short walk to the station for our train that left at 8:50. We had a 45 minute layover in Rome, then a 4 hour train ride to Venice. It was all problem free and we took naps and played cards, but I was still feeling a bit travel fatigued. We got out of the train, walked out of the station, and right there is the Canal Grande! That immediately banished the travel fatigue, and I said to Kimberly - “Look! We are in Venice!” She looked at me like, yeah, duh. But smiled oblgingly. We had directions to the hotel that involved crossing four bridges and following a “straight” road that was anything but straight, full of tourists, and changed names three times. Miraculously, we made it
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