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| After dinner stroll to Saint Mark's Basilica at Saint Mark's Square |
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| Waiting for our Flixbus at Rovinj bus station. Our bus departs Rovinj at 12.45 pm and arrives in Venice at 5.25 pm with a Euro 14.99 fare per passenger. |
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| Each passenger is allowed 1 hand luggage at 7 kg and 1 hold luggage at 20kg |
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| One more shot for the road. The bus station comes with a reasonably priced cafe. A coffee at Euro1.50 and a free use of the toilet! |
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| On the bus. Even though we were guaranteed seats on the bus, our seat numbers were duplicated several times. Hence, few of us had to change seats a few times. |
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| At one of the stops before Venice. It was fun to return to Trieste too! |
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| Google Streetview of where our bus stopped at Venice Mestre |
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| Following the bike route, it took us mainly through industrial areas, running parallel to the train tracks. However, things got tricky at Venezia Porto Maghera. There were major works on the tracks and we were to cross the line via an underpass! |
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| It was a lot of work finding the underpass and bringing our bikes down, crossing over and back up the stairs again! |
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| At the underpass |
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| At the other end of the underpass |
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| After the underpass, we followed this route |
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| Via della Liberta just before the bridge |
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| Happiness is when we were finally on Ponte della Liberta which is part of Route SR11, leading into Venice itself! |
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| Riding towards Venice |
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| Midway stop |
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| Approaching Venice! |
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| Almost there! |
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| Tronchetto, an artificial island at sunset. Built in the 1960's, it was mainly used as a parking area as Venice is car free, |
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Constitution Bridge.
Venice adopts a strict no bike ruling. You cannot ride a bike or even push your bike in the historic center. However, there is a small designated area where bikes are allowed and this is between the Constitution Bridge and Scalzi Bridge, a total distance of 500m.
Even though Claudine has full knowledge of this and even arranged to stay on Calle Priuli dei Cavaletti, which is just before the Scalzi Bridge, we were thrown off course by a signage at the front of the Constitution bridge. We panicked and began packing our bikes. |
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| The signage. Fine is Euro100! |
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Check in is managed by Hotel Agli Artistri
Photos downloaded from the internet based on memory of the room. Hotel and furniture are old but our room was very large for a triple stay.
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