Here we berthed, close to the Giardini vaporetto stop and about a 20 minute walk to St Mark’s Square, for three nights, although on two of those days our boat cruised round the lagoon. Fortunately we weren’t there for long as once everyone was on board we left for our next mooring at the Seven Martyrs Quay. We joined the Michelangelo at the Statzione Maritime Cruise Terminal which in the past has been used by large cruise ships, now banned from entering Venice, so it had an eerie, abandoned feel. We also had our own English speaking tour guide to show us the main sites of Padua. Our standard of French is long forgotten O’ Level standard – we can read it quite well and understand much of what is spoken but nobody seems to understand us when we attempt to speak it! However, we needn’t have worried as two of the excellent members of the crew spoke good English – Maria(?) the Purser and Clementine, who was in charge of entertainment – and they ensured we didn’t miss out on any of the information given to the rest of the passengers by translating as they went along or visiting our table during the evening meal to explain the programme for the following day. On boarding the MS Michelangelo we learned that we were the only English people on this particular cruise, all the others were French, which was rather daunting. I apologise for the length of this review but although this was our 8th visit to Venice it was the most enjoyable. A long, long time ago – or so it seems – I was lucky enough to win (in a Silver Travel Advisor competition) a CroisiEurope river cruise in the Netherlands but was later offered a voucher to the same value to put towards any of their cruises in 2020 so because of Covid I chose one to Venice as I know October is a good time to visit and I thought the pandemic would be over by then! Obviously the cruise in October last year didn’t happen but was transferred to this year and we have just returned from a wonderful holiday.
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