Venice & the Jewels of Veneto - Uniworld S.S. La Venezia - Day 7

 

Saturday 27 June 2026 (Day 7)

 

View from breakfast table

Our last full day. An excursion I really wanted to go on was ‘Do as the Locals Do: Venice Walking Tour in the Rialto district’ so we were ready for its 08:10 departure.

 

We were to get to the Rialto Bridge by water-taxi. These small wooden motor launches waited close by our boat in a narrow canal off the main waterway (see https://what3words.com/struts.unscrew.push ).

 

The main waterway is wide and very busy with boats of all sizes and speed creating wakes, so its water is always choppy, and that was funnelled and amplified into the narrow canal, where speedboats on the canal added to water disturbance. 

We went in single file down shiny stone steps to board the tossing launches which rocked from end to end and side to side, they rose and fell in the choppy water and moved close and further away from the steps.

An officer from our boat stood on the steps offering his hand and the launch sailor tried to hold the boat close to the steps but I couldn’t find a time I felt safe jumping onto the launch and our guide was telling me that it was more difficult at Rialto where the steps were slippery.

So I climbed back up the steps. Joan also decided against getting into the launch, and we had a walk through Venice, till overcome with heat and tiredness, we sat at a waterside café, had a glass of Prosecco and watched people and boats.

Later in the day while sitting on the sun deck I saw the dolphin again.

 

Over night mooring

San Basilio Cruise Terminal.

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