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Venice I remembered stories about Venice flooding, but unfortunately not at 7am this morning as we got up and showered (at the shower block on the camp site!) before getting the 8am boat to Venice which departed from just outside. We remembered our big coats (well, Sophie needed a bit of persuading to wear hers!). We got to Venice for 8:20am and managed to get a look at most of the sites and some of the shops before the floods appeared in St Marks square and the duck boards came out for people to walk on. It was a bit like a human version of Lemmings, watching them walk down duck boards put out by locals to get deliveries only to find they had to come back because it was a dead end! Most of the designer shops were away from the floods, however, although we were a bit disappointed that we couldn't get a Gondola. Well we could, but the rain started and we didn't think it would be as romantic as it looked on the telly! It was refreshing after coming through some more 'tourist' cities in France to find a place which had lots of interesting shops which local crafts rather then the 'tourist tat' like plastic fridge magnets and etc. There were some fantastic stationary shops selling hand made leather bound address books etc. We also picked up an Italian-English phrase book and dictionary in a shop - something which we forgot to bring with us! However, all is not lost, we had a good few hours in Venice and are now parked at La Sabbiona farm (website here: http://www.lasabbiona.it/index.asp?l=2 ) where no doubt we will end up sampling more wine/olives/local produce in the morning before moving on. I just hope the weather gets a bit better - it's warm, just too bloody wet! Venice I remembered stories about Venice flooding, but unfortunately not at 7am this morning as we got up and showered (at the shower bloc... Read more »