Venice - St Marks Square

Basilica

October 15th 2016
<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Day 259 Monday 3rd October 2016 – Piran to Trieste Plink, plink, plink, “Whats that noise?” must be the fridge, but it keeps going and then I think there was a flash of light in the room so I get up and look out the window just as a huge fork of lightening streaks across the sky and I see that it is pouring rain outside and the sound had bee ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

19th October 2016

taracloud
Tara Cloud

Great shot, but...
What a sea of inhumanity! Looks as if it was the cruise ship day, or maybe you were back in Prague! Cruise ships are the bane of travelers these days, and I fear it will only get worse. Grumpy old traveler here on the world's friendliest site!

20th October 2016

Shelley and Scott
Michele Hutchinson and Scott Maberley

Great shot, but...
Yes two cruise ships on this day, one big and the other HUGE. Yes the crowds were as big as Prague but I think because St Marks is so big it sort of can handle it. Didn't cop all the bad agro like we did in Prague and thankfully only a couple of segways. We agree with you about cruise liners, (and river cruisers too), and I guess that's what makes Bolivia so appealing to all of us. Watch out for the next blog on Florence where the grumpy traveller takes the helm again.

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