Our vaporetto pass was still active and we used it extensively on our first full day. We took the water bus to Lido, which is a long island forming a barrier to the Mediterranean. Motorized vehicles are allowed here and we took a bus, covered by our pass, down the island. This bus then goes onto a ferry to get to the next island south of Lido. More bus travel until you reach the bottom end of this island where you get off and take another vaporetto to the town of Chioggia.
Chioggia is joined to the mainland at the southern end of Venice Lagoon. Architecturally it is like Venice, equally old, but it very few canals. It wasn't a very promising day but we managed to keep out of the drizzle. Chioggia is a favourite place for tourists who know about it and we enjoyed our time there.
An attractive window, one of many
There are plenty of shops to entice the visitors. We did one important piece of shopping. Just before we left home we had lost our wedding ring and much searching didn't reveal its hiding place. We are still looking but since we hadn't been at all successful we bought a new one.
UPDATE December 16th 2010: It has in fact been found at home. Took a while!
The main street in Chioggia
An attractive church tower
An unusual glass sculpture in Chioggia
We retraced our steps after lunch back to Lido and then took another vaporetto that took us on an extended trip around the Northern end of the lagoon. We called into various islands and got off at Burano. This island is famous for its lace and we had made a visit to the lace museum on our earlier visit. It tipped with rain as we waited for the next vaporetto that would take us to Murano, the island famous for Venetian glass.
Murano
One of the canals in Murano
Another change of vaporetto and we crossed over to Venice and then went around clockwise to get us back too San Marco, as usual full of tourists.
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