Today we drive thru flat, rich looking farm land with grapes and orchards to Bologna and the Palace Hotel. We call our daughter’s sister-in-law, Kate, who is living in Bologna, and she makes a date to see us this evening.
Kate comes to our hotel about 7 PM with her friend Georgio; we talk a while, then they take us to dinner, and afterwards to see their office. Georgio works with com-puters, and Kate has a business teaching English.
It’s a rainy and cool day; a good time to rest and enjoy our warm room. We go out to breakfast at a bar nearby; the hotel breakfasts are expensive and not very good and we get a better meal for less elsewhere. We pick up a Herald Tribune and go to our room until noon. For lunch we go to the Pizzeria Gattopardo and eat the antipasto buffet and a good pizza. After walking some in the arcades and in the rain we go back to the room. In early evening we go to the enclosed market nearby and have an ice cream cone, then buy snack materials and strawberries for our evening meal.
Kate comes to have breakfast with us, and then we leave and drive thru rich and flat land to Ferrara where we see the outside of the Estes palace and eat lunch. We had planned to stay in Padova, but there is a big fair in town and no rooms available, so we continue toward Venice. In Mira we get a room at the small Aubergue Venezia; we have to climb up one floor, but the room is comfortable.
After the usual bad hotel breakfast we take a 1/2 hour bus ride to Venice. It drops us at the Piazza Roma and we ride a crowded boat on the Grand Canal to St. Marks Square. The Basilica is really something special with its’ glittering mosaics and gold altar. We wander with big crowds around the very large square, find a HT paper, and eat a small portion fish meal at a high price. We walk back to the Rialto bridge, ride a boat to Piazza Roma, and then the bus to Mira. We buy snack food at a supermarket just around the corner from our hotel.
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