No set plans today as we head off to explore more of Venice. We walk from hotel back to the train station and leave the main tourist district taking all the back streets. You forget easily that everything in Venice has to be either brought by boat or taken by boat. Renovations, cement mixers, fruit deliveries, rubbish and supplies are all by boat. Also most things off the boats are then handled by manual labor or by hand trolley to their destination. There are no push bikes, motor scooters or cars in Venice, only boats and people. As we clamber through the backstreets, people have left their rubbish out and there is a manual pick up from laneway to laneway, by a person pulling a hand trolley. The layout of Venice is many small laneways that
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