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| Fondamente Nove vaporetto stop on the outside edge of Venice |
Sant Elena Marina, Venice, Italy.
With valiant crew member, JKip, due any minute to join WJ3’s crew of vagabonds, and the end of our Venice stay in sight, it was also time to think about packing up, going back to Lido to do a big grocery shop at Conad and filling the water tanks. Bruce too, had developed quite the shaggy beard after bobbing about in brackish lagoon waters. Very stylish!
So, to celebrate the end of our stay we invited Mr Ian aboard for “cocktail” hour. He kept us thoroughly entertained with a rendition of Swiss Army precision drill (yes, of course with a multi tool knife) worthy of any Military Tattoo. Well, you just had to be there!
Later, we sat in the evening cool at the delightful osteria in Sant Elena for a celebratory fish dinner of local mussels, crab & prawns. It was going to be a very tough farewell.
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| Any room on board? It's Mr JKip! |
Sant Elena Marina had been the perfect and very convenient home-away-from-home with quiet neighbourhoods and shady parks welcoming us after long hot days of touristico-ing. Everything we needed was either walking distance or a short vaporetto ride away.
From our protected berth, we watched yet another huge cruise ship slowly exit the shallow Venice Lagoon and wondered what their passengers had thought of Venice. For us, two weeks seemed barely enough time to crack the surface and get beyond the glitz of this city of treasures and masterpieces. Obviously the heat and house wine had got to GS - she was talking summer rentals or camper vans. Our brave Cap’n, thinking of how many more cathedrals/museums that would involve, decided to ignore her. You get the drift...
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| Won't miss this alarm clock |
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| Or watching the daily ships coming & going, keeping the Pilots BUSY |
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| We will miss that vision of Venetian splendour |
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| And quiet moments on the Grand Canal |
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