Venice - Wednesday

On Wednesday morning we walked across Santa Croce and San Polo to Campo Santa Margherita. It was quieter than I'd expected but we caught a few fresh fish stalls and were not at all tempted to buy the squid!




We then made our way to the Grand Canal where we jumped on a vaporetto to go to St Marks's Square. It was busy but stunning.




Then we made our way back to Cannaregio where we caught a vaporetto to the lagoon island of Mazzorbo. It felt very different from what we'd experienced so far of Venice. There were a few buildings that looked like farmhouses and open fields alongside the canal. We walked for a little while then turned a corner to reveal this view of Mazzorbo's neighbour.




Across a bridge we reached Burano, famous for its lace and local fishing trade. Pictures of Burano often show its coloured houses and I had imagined it was always the same row of houses. But all the houses along Burano's canals look like these.




Burano felt quite distinct from Murano. There were plenty of shops and restaurants catering for the tourists but the sights and sounds of Via Baldassarre Galuppi were those of the locals, especially as it drew towards evening. We ate at Restaurant Galuppi where our waitress brought us complimentary glasses of limoncello at the end of the meal.

In contrast to the rest of the island, the vaporetto station on Burano was quite modern and high tech. It had been a long day and we still had to change boats at Fondamente Nuove and get the bus back to Mestre.