Day 6 - Sunday 17th September - Venice

Relaxing morning in our lovely piece of Venice. Our apartment is beautiful but the shower leaves a lot to be desired - very low water pressure and no way to stand under it because the head can't be turned away from the wall. But we made it work as on the Enterprize - wet yourself,  soap up, rinse off. After breakfast we decided to walk towards Ospedale at San Zanipolo but found that we were waddling towards the hoards of tourists which meant San Marco so we changed route, found a vaporetto stop and when we got on decided to go all the way around til we got to the stop before San Marco where the Lido ferries leave from. We wanted to see if we could get to Chioggia, which is on the south western tip of the Venetian Lagoon, for the day. We found that the season for the boat trips had finished but we could catch the vaporetto to Lido and a then a bus to Chioggia. The Lido is the very thin peninsula at the north boundary of the lagoon and stretches down towards Chioggia. Great idea! By the time we got to Lido it was time for lunch so we checked out all the restaurants in the main drag and settled on one of the many. John had Fritto Misto this time and I had a fish called Orata baked in the oven, and we shared a salad. Little did I know that I'd ordered a whole fish and not a fillet. So I gingerly ate this delicious fish, picking out the bones carefully, but enjoyed every mouthful. At the end of our meal the little man running the place offered us some Limoncello on the house, to help our digestion. Don't mind if we do. We strolled to the bus stop, hopped on the bus, checked with the driver that it was going to Chioggia and eventually it set off. We passed through the town and then down along the extremely thin part where the road runs down the middle of this big strip of land with water on either side. Then we got to water separating one strip and the next and before we knew what we should do, the bus drove onto a ferry which took us over the water! The bus continued on to Pellestrina the last town on this peninsula. We stopped and waited for the bus to get on the next ferry to take us across the water to Chioggia which was just on the other side. Lots of people stayed on but the bus started to head back to where we'd come from. Apparently we needed to get off and catch the ferry ourselves!  By this time it was late in the afternoon and apparently we were on the last bus so had we got off we would have got to Chioggia but would have had a long swim back. So we stayed on the bus and headed back to where the bus got on the ferry and heard people saying that the bus we were on wasn't going back to Lido, it was heading off after the ferry stop in another direction. So we all got off, ran onto the ferry, crammed onto the bus on the ferry and went full circle back to where we'd started. Well that was thoroughly exhausting so we caught the vaporetto to Piazzale Roma where we went to COOP the big supermarket we remembered and bought some supplies for dinner - stinco di maiale al forno (roasted pork shin) and some roast potatoes nom nom nom. Had a relaxing dinner and evening in.