Day 6 - Lido Di Jesolo. Speaking about the Blog entry photo (courtesy of my colleague Louise B), what can you do at night time in Jesolo? Every commercial place that offers a table to sit and something to eat, from cake and ice creams to pizzas and of course all the bars and restaurants (and that is valid for Venice and all the islands too) are offering the 2 basic nice coloured long drinks - in fact is just one, called "Venezian Spritz" but it can be made out of 2 ingrediends: Aperol or Campari. Cost varies from 2.50 eur in Jesolo to 4 or even 5 euros on the islands. It's a nice, refreshing long drink and it's worth trying it when you're relaxing in one of the 2 seater garden swings you can find at almost any bar and gelateria. Cocktails. There are a few entirely dedicated cocktail bars, with live music and good atmosphere but most (if not every) restaurants or pizzerias, gelaterias, etc. have a cocktail section in the menu. Price varies from 5 eur or different other on offer combinations for the happy hours to 6.50 - 7 eur (better quality). I have 2 recommandations: "Rossini" (based on Champagne) mostly for women and "Negroni", a strong one mostly for men. Dance on the table? Less probably here in Jesolo. People just wanting to listen to good music, to have a good conversation, to enjoy themselves, and, if the spirits get very hot for some of them, I did hear on the beach, just by the sea, cheer, laugh and dance and night time swim. I say hear because just by the water there is no lights as it is on the long pedestrian walkway near the sandy beach. It is a common image walking night time along the beach to see lots of people dancing, all the ages, on live or recorded music, played in the open air side of the restaurants belonging to the beach facing hotels. People know how to have fun here in Italy. Bicycles. Or "bici" in Italian, Apart from our hotel and I suppose other hotels, there are many bicycles rent points in Jesolo along the commercial street. There is a wide range on the offer, single ones or single with a child seat for 3-4 eur an hour, double and quadruple bicycles with childs sitting in front, for prices starting 13 eur per hour but very popular on the streets at night time and very good fun, electric golf cars, scooters, framed cars, etc. at higher prices. Renting is incredible easy, from the hotel you just take the lock key from the bar hop on the bicycle and off you go. At the renting centre you just sign in 3 places on a paper and off you go. Simples. Oh, and 2 other thigs. The Jesolo commercial street has got restricted hours for cars access and there is a quite large 2 lanes reserved for bicycles on the main road, much more generous dimensions than in UK. One could say it's a kind of a bicycle motorway, taking into account the cruising speeds, horns, and number of bicycles per minute. And secondly, do not expect any protection gear of any kind (helmets, reflective vest, etc.) because absolutely no one wears something like that here. Shopping. You can do shopping in markets along the commercial street in Jesolo, the farer you go from the main piazzas, the less the prices will be. There are a few supermarkets located further north from the commercial street from Piazza Brescia, just by the aquarium, not very friendly access as a pedestrian but you can reach them... very fair prices out there and different type of shops from what you can find on the main commercial street. Game rooms or "Sala Giochi" or just Giochi. If you are with kids you better have a huge reserve of 0.50 eurocents (mostly) change in your pockets. There are hundreds of Giochi, every corner, the main attractions being the riding things for the little ones. And the fantasy goes beyond limits for the offer. You will see. Buses. Tickets sold at the "tabacchi" shops only, which sometimes is annoying if you decide to go somewhere between 1pm and 4pm when all the shops are closed. Someone give us a tip one day and you can find a ticket machine near the tabacchi shop in Piazza Aurora. Works quite fair if you follow all the instructions written in a few languages on the machine. There are basically 2 tarriffs, within city limits (urbano) and beyond city limits (extraurbano). Return tickets for extra-urbano are valid 3 days, which is handy because you can spend a night if you want in Venice or on other islands and return the next day with the same ticket. Oh, I forgot, you need to stamp the ticket as soon as you get on the bus in one of the machines provided. Every station has got a number and you need to press the button if you want to get off the bus because drivers (some kind of local F1 Alonsos) do not stop every station. Fair on daylight, quite hard to do at night time, we missed our station a couple of times and had a walk back for returning to our hotel. More about Jesolo beach and hotels in my next blog. Cheers.