We were taken to Trieste where we docked about 3 hours after we were supposed to in Venice. We were scheduled to get off the ship at noon, but didn't actually set foot on land until 7:30 pm. And then we had to be bussed to Venice--another 2 and a half hours. We were dropped at the port only to find the monorail that would take us to the vaporeto stop had ceased running for the night. We had to take a taxi to the vaporeto and then it was a 30-40 minute ride to our stop at San Marco. We were really disappointed in the disembarkation in Trieste. They seemed to be totally disorganized. (I am being a model of understatement here.)
We got to the hotel at 11 or so, in bed at 11:30. Of course the room we got this time (we stayed in the same hotel as before the cruise) had the view of the canal! We made arrangements to get a water taxi to the Piazzale Roma where we got a land taxi to the airport. It was still foggy so the water taxi didn't want to take us the entire way to the airport.
Our trip home went according to schedule for the most part and we arrived in Boston only an hour late--but what's an hour compared with the fiasco of the day before. Nonetheless, it was a long day and we crashed once we arrived at our own, most welcome, abode.
We are happy to be home and have many fine memories of our trip.
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