Boxing Day

Today we had a lay in in, emerging for breakfast at a reasonable 9am after which Maddison went back to the room to rest, her feet are sore after all the walking yesterday, she probably had on the wrong type of socks! Geoff and I wandered off to find some presents to take back with us. Vein aims seem to work to the same times as Egyptians so there were more shops open on the way back than on the way there.
The afternoon was taken up with a boat trip to the islands of Murano, Burano and Torcello the iPad pictures for which seem to appear on yesterday's blog! I must be feeling a bit confused. Anyway, Murano is famous for its glass so we visited a glass factory and saw a man blowing a vase and making a horse, which took him all of 5 minutes. Maddison was quite taken with the horse so we bought one and then wandered down the street to look in the other shops. Torcello used to have 25,000 people living there and now there are 10, so we looked at the old church.
Burano is a fishing village where they have to keep the houses the traditional colours, they also make lace there so we were shown into a shop where a lady was demonstrating needlepoint lace making. It can take up to 9 ladies to make one item as they each specialise in one particular stitch. So many beautiful things . . . . .
Then back to Venice to eat and sleep.