There was a public transport strike in Venice on Friday which was our final full day on board. But there were ferries running from the Cruise Terminal to St Mark's Square, I guess it was to keep Venice's thriving tourist industry ticking over. With up to 4 Cruise ships in harbour at the one time, each with over 2000 passengers on board, a strike would severely dampen the day's takings.
We travelled to St Mark's Square, completed our shopping and returned to the ship by water bus. The threatening weather turned a little showery as we were riding back to the ship to pack and spend our final night on board.
If the photo below uploads OK you can see how 4 or now 5 Cruise Ships in dock at once put a strain on Venice Airport! The airport is packed.
The ship wanted to charge us USD$80 per head for transfer from the ship to the airport. We shared a taxi with an English couple and it cost us 25 Euros per couple. To make the change a bit easier we added a little bit to the 45 Euros we were quoted. We arrived at the airport at 10am, and we were almost the final group to disembark.
So now we have found seats and have settled down for a 6hr wait until our plane is due to take off. This is plenty of time to sit back and put a blog post together, keep an eye on the footy scores until it is check-in time.
We will see if the 30 minute free wifi here at the airport will upload photos.
We arrive in Dubai at 11:30pm their time which we understand is 9:30pm Venice time. We then fly from Dubai around midday and get to Jeddah 2:30pm their time. Kate expects to pick us up from Jeddah Airport around 3:30pm. It is then a further 1 hour drive to KAUST.
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