Today we did more walking, across the Ponte dell'Accademia, and around to the Church of S.Maria Della Salute - another very beautiful church.
In the afternoon we went for a gondola ride - an organized thing so shared the gondola with four others (a guy from Sydney who now works in software development in London and his partner, and two girls from Brazil). The ride was for about 30 minutes; very peaceful just gliding through the canals. One of the gondoliers going past suddenly broke out with some fairly ordinary singing - definitely not a contender for Italian X Factor.
After that it was more walking and shopping - we have relented to the cold conditions and bought hats. Well actually I bought one hat, and Peter bought three (one in the morning, a different beanie style one after that, and then another one from the store where I bought mine). We decided that if we are to survive the cold of Piazza San Marco at midnight tomorrow night, jackets, scarves and gloves won't be enough, and a hat will be required too.
Just a couple of photos today - Peter with the Bridge of Sighs in the background (so named from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice out the window before being taken down to the prison cells); and a photo taken from our gondola ride of other gondolas.
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