Venice

We arrived in Italy - Venice this afternoon. We took a 7 min walk from the airport to the waiting private boat that took us to our hotel The Rialto. We went up the so advertised lift - to the first floor, from there we had to walk up about 8 flights of steep stairs to a loft with a loft attached. You would have to be a mountain goat to live here. We have been for a long stroll around the many lanes and shops with many beautiful things to look at. The resturant that the hotel suggested was closed so we darted into the first next one we saw, sat down and realised that it was a Chinese run faux authentic Italian cafe and the food was crap. You live you learn.
The people here are a pleasure after Germany, and even though there is a drizzle of rain it is still lovely. Tomorrow is Saturday and there is a market so we will go there and who knows what else. Just had some hot chocolate and icecream ...