I helped Linda get her luggage to the car area where she was meeting with her friend Andrea. I noticed this sign, the tide level sign! High tide was coming, bringing more acqua alta!
I took a little spin around the city before heading to my train. I stopped at the Rialto market, where the acqua alta was already coming up into the market.
There's a few different areas of the market, including knickknacks and fruits and vegetables, but the most famous is probably the fish market. I've never been when the market was in full swing before, so it was cool to see all that out.
The canals were pretty busy. I assume that more of these rowing crews were out because it was Saturday. It seems to be a popular sporting activity for Venetians. I could see myself doing this!
I noticed that the garbage and recycling boats often had mascots on their front tie posts. Probably pulled out of the garbage... Besides this cows I saw a few teddy bears!
And of course, there were gondolas everywhere. It was an especially busy day for them. Gondola tip: we got offered a low priced gondola ride around 6pm. They gondolier offered us a good price since it was going to be his last ride of the day and he just wanted to find someone... He offered us a ride for 30 Euros, and that is actually a really good price. So take that tip on your next trip to Venice!
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