After sleeping off our trip into Venice for dinner the night before (and overcoming our desire to thoroughly throttle the other to a group that we had to share a ferry with on the way back), it was time to head back to Venice for our more or less complete day there.

Actually, reflecting on this from over 2 years in the future from when this shot was taken, they really did organise that quite well. Being in Venice for the evening and getting to experience some of it at night gave a different perspective on the place; one which we would not have had had we had only this one day in there.

As with the night before we departed from the island of Tronchetto, and as with the night before instead of taking the land route to the west of the main island we took the water route to St Mark's which would be our base of operations for the day.

As we can see from the shipping on the move, we weren't the only ones with that idea. I'll come back to that.