The banging headache I was expecting the next morning never came. We didn’t do much that morning, just packed up and left to Venice. The trip was long and tortuous, nothing even close to too much to handle, but the heat was frying our brains. The closure was one of welcome relief: a boat taxi to cross the river and drop us off right at the hotel. Our Three days in Venice were as well spent as possible. We walked a lot and saw everything we could within the short time available. That city really is amazing. It would make a lot of sense to set up something on water in the old days, before cars and planes, but now it’s something really hard to conceal. However, the place is still in all its glory. I just wish it wasn’t so fucking hot.

My Venice favourites were dinner at a proper Italian joint and a Leonardo DaVinci Museum of gadgets.