Pretty uneventful, so I'm just going to whine about stuff I forgot to mention before.
Fuel prices and my quart of oil.... Fuel prices have been about as high as I have seen before, close to $10 per gallon...some places more. But what really shocked me was the price for a quart of oil for my old reliable BMW. I asked for the least expensive quart of oil....when he showed a 1 and a 4 with his fingers, I am thinking 1.4 euros, not bad. When I finished paying him 14 Euros, I was starting to feel ripped off. He went ahead and told me the prices of all the other oils on the shelf, they were much higher...that is almost $20 for 1 quart of cheap 10-30 wt oil. Something besides water has passed up our fuel prices. I could not imagine changing the oil in my truck at 16 qts or better yet the motor home at 24 qts and not the cheap stuff.</p>
<p>Today we also did the tourist thing and headed into Venice and walked around. We toured the basilica and the Dodge's Palace, built in the 9th century and rebuilt a few times after that. Same tourists still dragging luggage around looking for their hotel amongst the many hidden alleys. It is funny to see how much people pack and will drag up and over all the bridges. Then it started storming....lol...it got better watching them try to run and negotiate the slippery marble walk ways. We got back to the bus and watched a new batch arrive from the airport....I don't think they wanted to get off. There is no cover and no where to run. You have to cross two pretty big bridges that are all steps before you can even start to look for your hotel. The closest one is 1/8 of a mile and on a normal day you are sweating pretty good after the first bridge....we know we did it last year with our own luggage. The hotels are spread out from there up 4 miles of hidden trails and waterways, and you will get lost. Everyone was soaked, we kinda enjoyed it, at least I did. I noticed that the clothes were kinda risque ...you should have seen them all wet.
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