Today was spent travelling back to Venice and preparing for Day 1 of the tour starting tomorrow, Saturday the 13th.

Packing the trailer!!

Leaving Bormio…

A small village near Tirano…

There are a lot of tunnels in the Alps. Most have names and their lengths marked on an entrance sign. So we went into nerd mode and did the math. We went through 31 tunnels with a combined length of almost 45km with the longest being nearly 8km in length. Quite amazing engineering.

Some of the scenery through the foot hills of the Alps including Lake Iseo…

Back on the car ferry to Lido

Piazza San Marco…

The Bridge of Sighs in Venice…

Wiki tells me that the enclosed bridge is made of white limestone, has windows with stone bars, passes over the Rio di Palazzo, and connects the New Prison (Prigioni Nuove) to the interrogation rooms in the Doge’s Palace. The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment.

Santa Maria della Salute (English: Saint Mary of Health), commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at Punta della Dogana.

A beautiful dinner and sunset on the Lido…