Day 9 - Wednesday 20th September - Venice

So I'm not sure if the fall shook my insides all around as I thudded to the floor, but I was up most of the night emptying my stomach contents. I felt very unwell when I eventually got up. Just had a cup of tea and then lay on the couch while John went out to get some things we needed. Later in the afternoon when I was feeling a little better we ventured out at a very, very slow pace to accommodate all my aches and pains.  We walked to the jewellery store to exchange John's ring for a smaller size and John was going  to buy me the matching earrings to go with my cameo but that would have to wait until our next trip because I was still feeling quite nauseous. We slowly made our way into the new department store next to Rialto which opened earlier this year in a fully restored palazzo called Fondaco dei Tedeschi and this is its name. The building was once a storehouse for german merchants' goods and also had 160 living quarters and offices. The plan had been that on our last day we'd come here and go to the rooftop terrace that had views over this magical city but the way I was feeling and with the queue we found to go up, we decided to wait til our next visit for that too. It's full of designer brand stores so no purchases from us. The ground floor though is dedicated to all things Venetian and made in Italy but that will have to wait too. We made or way back home and after doing some packing I slept on the sofa for quite a while and poor John had to go out for a last passegiata alone. I finished the packing, went to bed and left John to tidy up as we were leaving the next day.