Vaporetto to St. Mark's Square

We retrieved our luggage, and Jim said that he wanted to do a general tour of Venice via the Grand Canal. I figured that the cheapest way to do this was not by gondola, but by vaporetto. The closest vaporetto station was St. Marta’s, so we got on a boat that took us to another station, where we transferred boats. As we debarked from the first vessel, I saw before me a lovely church. I went inside and took a few photos of the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus Santa Chiara. There were some women inside preparing the altar for mass. They did not seem bothered that I was taking pictures. I found the interior remarkably beautiful for just a common parish church. Glenda snapped a shot of the nest of a homeless man, where a generous donor had left a new pair of shoes for the indigent man. My baby Italian was sufficient to get us onto vaporetto #2, that would take us under the Rialto Bridge, and ultimately to St. Mark’s Square. The canal was bustling with tourist and cargo traffic, but we made it safely to St. Mark’s. We took only a few minutes to look around because, as it turned out, the boat that was to take us back to the Venice Port Authority, where the River Countess was docked, was to arrive shortly.Les mer