The all new "Where are you today?" thread

[Steve]

We booked it via the BA sale last year - which is on now!!! Til the 25th Sept

We stayed at LaGare Hotel Venezia Mgallery Collection - Venice. This was on Murano .

https://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-7353-lagare-hotel-venezia-mgallery-by-sofitel/index.shtml

It is a modern hotel so the rooms were large and bright  ( compared to those on Venice)  and was a  4star.   Breakfast was included as was flights and a return boat transfer from the airport to the hotel .  Staff were lovely and it was cheap as chips for all that. Also water bus stop right outside the hotel - about every 15 mins to Venice.
Just checking the BA site now for 3 nights with all that included on March 8th next year £182  / March 22nd £194 . It really was great value for money !!!

Top Tips also book the 'Secret Tour' for Doges Palace  which has no queue and you visit the behind the scenes stuff and then have full access to the rest of the building.

Also did one of these which was brilliant -  http://venicefreewalkingtour.com/  and saw a lot of stuff and found out a lot more about the city than we would have otherwise

Brilliant,  Mille Grazie

Her birthday is soon, might see if we can do it then

Mrs K loved your description

Her birthday treat is now all booked and sorted    Of course she will now find something hideously expensive there I can buy her as a present as well 

[Miss Demeanour]

Fabulous .....  

I'm in no doubt she will need ( and of course deserve) many presents 

[Nick]

Wimmin 

[Steve]

Fabulous .....  

I'm in no doubt she will need ( and of course deserve) many presents 

Yep but hopefully she’ll not realise

She just looked at the long range weather forecast:

Thudner

[Steve]

Anyway as we sit here in the bar (JD and Coke and a Limoncello liqueur) time for an ear worm:

Mud mud, glorious mud.
Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood

Our hotel (3rd time) is in Abano Terme a town built on selling mud. People pay serious money to be  plastered in warm mud for supposed detoxing and beautifying effects.

Well yet again we’re having none of that.

The hotel says a minimum of 6 days treatment which means serious fleecing of people’s hard earned. But the place and town just ooze charm and class despite maybe 100 things being not quite right. About half the guests spend the mornings wandering around in their dressing gowns (again not us)   

Here’s the reception area and bar:



http://www.abanoritz.it/

Long story how we ended up here 31 years ago and it rescued our first European holiday. It was cheap then, not now

[Nick]

[Barman]

I hope it pays well... 

[Nick]

 

[Barman]

Is there a correlation between the amount of time you spend pressing buttons at the lock and your lack of gainful employment I wonder...? 

[Nick]

No, it's the other way round 

[Steve]

Homeward Bound

free ear worm #23

[Barman]

Homeward Bound

free ear worm #23

 

[Steve]

Now in Soave wot has an amazing castle you can see from the Autostrade but not this restaurant

So instead . . .



And here’s one someone took earlier

[Barman]

Now in Soave wot has an amazing castle you can see from the Autostrade but not this restaurant

So instead . . .



And here’s one someone took earlier

 

[Steve]

Sadly now at the airport and our flight is delayed because the incoming flight from Gatwick is delayed

Shall I blame TMR?     


On the other hand we're in no real hurry and we're in a lounge with a free bar.  Will I give TMR credit for that?