Day 25 - Venice (cont)

We had a really lovely day in the city today and were so glad we had not joined a tour excursion especially when we saw the humongous crowds queuing for the Doges Palace and the Basilica which we had seen on a visit in 1990. We just wandered up and down the narrow alleyways and over the canals etc just taking our time. Eric thought we might have a gondola ride even though he didn't like the smells in the canals last time, but at €80($100) we gave it a miss.We found a little cafe with free wifi and had a leisurely coffee (make that 2) and a fresh croissant while we read our emails etc.We apologise that we have not been able to send many emails as it is too difficult to negotiate. We are able to send texts on the phone but for some reason can't make calls.At present we are planning to take the water shuttle (25minutes)to StMarks Sq. again tomorrow and have another wander if the weather is good again.

Another top meal tonight with our elderly Scottish ladies.They go off each day and do their own thing and stay up later and see more than we do.Tonight's show we are having a 17 piece Venetian Chamber Orchestra perform a selection From the Old Continent to the New World - sounds interesting. After the show tonight we have to have our suitcases outside our stateroom by 11.00pm and just keep the essentials for tomorrow.

Well what a night!There is a motor for the jacuzzi behind our bed head and for the past few days the on and off noises have been very offputting to say the least?It got really bad last night so we phoned through about 10pm and they sent 2 separate guys up and said the motor is broken but they would try to get the engineer to shut it off but 3hours late still the same so rang through and said they hadn't isolated the problem( we could have told them that) and said no rooms spare though they would try to find another room but that was the lat we heard from them - hence just dozing rest of night and very tired today.We also asked if we could get a room for a couple of hours this Argo but no, so then asked if we could use private Sanctuary area and grudgingly said we could use that privately so, as we will be at airport and flying to Dubai arriving at 5am, we are looking forward to some rest.