The day before we were to leave Assisi to drive to Venice we received a message from Carmel. Her and Ian were due to meet us in Venice the next day, but it turns out their plane out of Melbourne was delayed. This meant that they were due to miss their connecting flight in Doha through to Venice. They were told that there were no other flights to Venice for 24 hours, therefore they were to be delayed getting to Venice by an entire day. Carmel had to advise the h...

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...