Blog 2: Venice Despite the very hot days, cycling toward Venice was a great adventure. Travelling a mixture of bike trails, back roads and dykes, which mostly hug the myriad of rivers and waterways that make up that part of the Italian north-east coastline, we eventually took a series of ferries before finally re-joining our mothership and docking at one of the residential Venetian islands. The group was made up of a German couple, a (French) Canadian couple, an English couple, two Swedish ladies, a young ex-pat English/Australian woman and her step mother, an Australian couple based in Vienna, an elderly Italian gentleman plus Fran and me. A good mob that all got on really well. The cycling was easy going the whole way; the bikes very good and well maintained and the accommodation aboard the
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