FUN-travel: Trieste to Venice, Italy for 10 Day Seabourn Cruise
October 8, 2013 by Susan Clarke
Day 20 – Saturday, October 5 – Trieste to Venice, Italy for 10 Day Seabourn Cruise – gray overcast, gloomy skies – warmer, maybe 60 – turns misty & cooler in Venice
What I LIKE
UMR – usual morning routine
8:30 – to train
8:35 – arrive
9:18 – train on time & has 1st class
Trieste Roman Ruins
- 9:55 – starts pouring rain
- *11:26 – arrive St Lucia train station on time
- 11:40 – reservation for water taxi to ship terminal www.motoscafivenezia.it
- plenty of water taxi’s – costs the same $70 Euro – cash only
- 12:15 – arrives dock (wrong one)
- **12:20 – arrive correct one
- 12:35 – board ship
- easy check in
- Deck 6 – bar & lunch – different kinds of wraps – nice glass Stags Leap chardonnay & Koonunga Hill shiraz for Chris
- 2:00 – room ready & my bags are there!
- nice bottle of Nicolas Feuillatte champagne awaiting us
- 3:15 – safety drill – don’t have to carry life vest
- 3:45 – chris’ bag finally arrives (would have been freaking out if it was me)
- ***3:50 – scope out laundry room down the hall – 2 washers & dryers – free & empty!
- 4:00 – sail off
- +4:30 – get 1st load in (nice man shows me how to navigate the wash cycles)
- turns out he’s my next door ship mate from San Francisco!
Trieste Church
- 5:00 – get 2nd load in
- 5:30 – check laundry & one’s available – tell lady trying to use other washer to hold it for me & I will show her how to program it
- ++back to room for last load
- 6:15 – final load in & end of laundry fiasco!
- 7:30 – dinner in main dining room – join table w/2 Brit couples
- lively discussion on politics
- lamb chops & halibut (not the best)
- good wine!
What I DON’T LIKE
- feel sad & wish Cinzia lived closer
Cinzia & Me
- *station packed w/people
- water taxi chaos – not sure where or how to find ours
- **have to stand & wait for security to open
- ***3:55 – somebody already snagged both washers!
- +very difficult to figure out settings
- ++she lets someone else take the washer!
FUN-fact – Booking the water taxi from the St. Lucia station is the easiest but expensive. The other option is too walk a long way over bridge with steps to Piazzale Roma. It never occurred to us how difficult the logistics would be in Venice to get to the ship.
Not so FF – Man on cruise said he paid $180 Euro from airport and then another $180 Euro to get to ship terminal. OUCH!
More FF – Cinzia said the name Crisafulli means “the maker of jewelry.”