From there we wound our way through the back alleys and found the church of St Lucia - (St Lucy). Here they have the body of St Lucy - who is the patron saint of eye sight I believe - on view in a glass coffin. The church was very ornate and beautiful - more so because of our Lucy!
We had a shared lunch of pizza, prosciutto and melon (a lovely combination) in a ristorante right on the grand canal then we separated - Greg & Anne to come home and we visited the cemetery island. We feel pretty confident now navigating around the vapporato timetables and felt quite like locals as we watched tourists who looked very confused! The cemetery was moved to this island under Napoleon's reign as he deemed it unsanitary to bury bodies in Venice itself. It seems like if you have LOTS of money or prestige, your family can be buried in huge mausoleums - because land is precious, after 10 years ordinary bodies are interred and plaques placed on walls. However, if you are rich you get to stay in your grand mausoleum!
This morning Darryl and I went for our walk along the beach - which was a hive of activity with tractors grading and raking the sand, people raking up seaweed and people putting out the umbrellas and beach chairs. Greg & Anne noticed when they were first here great piles of sand all along the beach - we think they bring sand in from somewhere as at the waters edge it's quite pebbly and has little shells. The water is quite warm and inviting! Can't believe you are all freezing back home.
Today we are having a quieter day and we are presently at a cafe which has free wifi as Anne's has run out. We were very spoilt that Anne had us all set up with internet all along our travels.
We see where Kerang & Murrabit lost but good old Port had a good win. Wish we were there with you Kristian & bet you loved being at Adelaide oval.
Well we want to catch a different bus to explore another part of the island so have to leave off. No more blogs till Doha!
Love to you all
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