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I don’t think my last post came through in the previous thread so I’ve started a new one here. If you’ve already read the following… apologies for doubling up

Finally hello again

When first leaving Melbourne, I lounged around the Emirates lounge sampling their delicious food before boarding. I started with red and golden beetroot with goats cheese and moved onto a tiny 5 star spice duck pie with broccolini and braised eggplant which was delicious.

Finished with a tiny but tasty chocolate patisserie.

Of course they served dinner on board which I then couldn’t eat but managed to ‘fit in’’ some Arabic mezze….baba ganouche,, lamb kibbeh, hummus, olives. And had my first for the trip, Aperol Spritz and decided I definitely prefer Campari and soda. I had a mess around with my lie flat bed and found it was fine. Figured out how to charge my iPhone, took my sleeping pill, the bed was comfy and warm so I slept for 7 hours which was very good.

Dubai Airport is enormous, huge. It was all up about 5 km from the terminal I landed to the terminal I had to leave for next flight… plus a fast train ride in the middle. I was pretty exhauted.

Temperature was 31’C / 90’F outside at 5.30 in the morning as the sun was rising. The impressive high rise buildings emerging out of the early morning sea fog from the Persian Gulf was quite a sight.

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neely
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Anyway we are here in Venice and the apartment is lovely. It maynot be to everyone's taste but I think the entrance with it’s patina, is just what you would want to call home for a week in a historic European city.

Below… Entrance

Below is the view from my bedroom., showing a little canal and one of the many little bridges

From what I’ve seen of Venice so far it is delightful. It is so quiet, of course no traffic noise and our apartment is not immediately near restaurants or cafes but they are only a couple of twisty laneways away.

The first morning I treated my son to breakfast at the very

old ( 1700 hundreds ) Baroque style Cafe Florian. We had

smoked salmon and spinach quiche with Cappuccinos
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