Venice

Well, despite the efforts of the media to scare the 3 ladies into cancelling their planned trip to Venice, over-hyping the extent of the floods that hit St Mark’s Square in Venice on Monday, they caught the 10:00 train from Derby that was to start their journey to Venice via Gatwick. Everything appears to have gone smoothly and they duly arrived at their destination hotel to find that it had been unaffected by the flooding, being on one of the hills in Venice, and on venturing out this morning to St Mark’s Square -- guess what? That’s right, no flooding to be seen. Carol, being fluent in Italian (she’s married to one) asked the local’s about it, and their response was to shrug and say “it came up quick, it go down quick”. Don’t you just love the way the press and TV media make mountains out of molehills?