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Chioggia in March Day 1

The last few months haven’t been easy and so this morning it’s something of a triumph to be letting Andrea load the bags into the car but to get behind the steering wheel myself. It’s early on a beautiful spring Sunday morning and even my least favourite motorway, the one between Milan and Venice, is behaving itself. Being Sunday, there are no trucks and we make good time. I stop after an hour and a quarter to stretch my legs and again after we leave the motorway but it’s really not far and we are at the meeting point with our host in Chioggia by 10.30. We are lucky. Our host is very well organized and helpful, ideal for us as things are at the moment. We park, he loads our bags into his car, drives us to the apartment in the historical centre of Chioggia, within the ZTL area, carries our bags up the stairs and there we are. The apartment is delightful, bright, sunny and with a view of the canal as well as being warm and cosy. Everything is clean and new. While the cleaning lady is fin...

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