Re: Cruise ship in Fowey
My late wife and I pent 4 months every year for 13 years backpacking around the UK and continental Europe including Turkey both European and Asian parts. We spent two weeks in Venice one summer and there was no canal smell. Venice is actually a great walking city all along side the small canals, those away from the Grand Canal have pedestrian bridges. We found a great small cheap hotel off of St. Marco's square and used St. Marco's as a starting off point of a morning as there was no street maps. and most tourist get a one day stop and San Marco's it We got chummy with a gondolier and his COUSIN who owned a speedo motor launch, and they gave us special rates and we would walk past them and make eye contact with one, and he would meet us a half hour later at an arranged bridge, and take us around and give us a discounted rate, as they had to take passengers in turn at the starting off point. we also found a restaurant that was a working man's lunch/dinner place, good food, cheap prices. So, Venice was very reasonable to us. We did the same sort of thing in all the major cities in Europe and most had a COUSIN in the smaller towns who had a car.
We loved Italy, they, the Italians, are all a little crooked and hustlers, Theye'd rather hustle a buck than be a wage earner. Once you understood this (the rules of the game), Europe became affordable and fun.
We had rented out our home in the USA, So home for us was where we slept, no home rent or auto payments, taxes and mortgage. We owned our camper in Oz and a car in the UK. The only bummer was driving a Brit. car in Europe. Still small price to pay for no car rental fees or mortgage and property taxes.
I have great photos and wonderful memories of Oz, UK. and Europe and Bella Venice.
Cheers, Rodney
Rodney David Richard Mills
R602188 Gravesend