Treviso to Venice

22 September 2025, Monday. We (group of ten plus Amy) walked from Relais San Niccolo, our hotel in Treviso, about 15 minutes to the train station, then boarded the train for Venice. Meanwhile, our luggage, loaded on our yellow van, might not arrive for a day or two because of labor strikes that might interfere with getting the van on the ferry and delivered to our hotel on Lido Island. But we arrived in Venice on time, then met our tour guide Isabel for a two hour walking tour of Venice, crossing the Grand Canal twice, and finishing at St Mark's Plaza (wow!) where Isabel pointed out water coming up through low elevation drains in the plaza as high tide from the Adriatic Sea rolled in. From near the plaza we took a water bus on a 20 minute ride to Lido Island, where our hotel, Ausania Hungaria was located. Due to threats of rain the following day we elected to do as much of that day's bike ride as we could now. We pedaled about ten miles before enough rain was falling to motivate us to return to the hotel. Anna and I went out on our own for salad and wine for dinner, followed by a trip to a local laundromat, where a couple of Italians, including Alberto, a soldier in the Italian Marines, helped us to figure out which buttons to push - and how many times to push each button. Back to the hotel for a well-deserved night of sleeping.Read more