I don't believe it

Harry, Marmalade and I had a great Thursday, we worked on the village garden to get rid of Wednesday night's alcohol then we tidied up the house, had a full fry and made our way to the airport hotel in Wilmslow. After a shower we went up the road to the Vintage Inn had their excellent gammon and chips washed down with a couple of pints of real ale then we turned in to sleep the sleep of the righteous. But while we slept the gods of misery were at work.

We arrived at the airport at 0540 to be told that the flight was delayed until 09.00 eventually taking off at 0915. The flight was fine and sorting out the vaporettos to our new booking on a luxury motor yacht went like clockwork but that was when the gods intervened once again, the boat was out of service and Booking.com had advised me of this by email to my old email address at 0300 while I was in the land of nod. I eventually contacted then and they sent me to a hotel just off St Mark's Square, by the time I had dragged my luggage there through the masses of tourists it was 1730 only to be told that they had no record of the booking. I eventually got sorted with a shoe-box of a room just a spit from St. Marks Square so you can imagine how much that is going to cost. By this time I was beginning to regret travelling to Venice so I headed of away from the tourists and found a local bar where I ordered a pint, the waiter asked if I wanted a medium or a large beer, I looked around and saw that people had either a 0.2 or a 0.4 cl beer in front of them so I asked for a large beer, when it arrived it was a 2 litre stein at17.50 euros! Ouch! However, since then things improved, I took everyone's advice and got lost, in fact I was so lost that I was still walking at 9 pm so I stopped and had a pizza and got directions back to my hotel.
I had been warned that Venice was expensive especially around St Mark' Square but water and Coke in the local mini- market are twice the price of the mini-bar in my hotel room - shocking.
Ah we'll tomorrow is another day.