Another brilliant day in Venice today. We had a lot to pack into one day and we managed to achieve everything we set out to do. We began with an early tour around the Doge's palace, just off Piazza San Marco. This was very interesting, giving us a full history of Venice's merchant past, dating back to the 1100's when Venice was a global power. We saw where prisoners were kept right in the bottom floors of the same palace building used by the Doge. Casanova was i...

Well, what a big day we had today. We woke early and got a good start on the day. It was a 2.5 hour drive to Venice and we wanted to get there as early as possible. We were on the road by 8:00 and heading for Italia. We arrive in Venice at 10:30, right on time, and after waiting half an hour to get into the car park, we took a private boat transfer to our hotel, the Westin Europa and Regina, and were here just before midday. The hotel was nice enough to leave u...