Landing in Venice II

The Venice airport is located on the mainland, north and east of the city.  To get into Venice you either have to take a water taxi, water bus, or combination bus and water bus.  Our landlords had given us instructions using the later, so we bought our tickets and boarded the bus.  We and 40+ people with suitcases!   And the bus made stops on the way into town with folks trying to climb onto an already packed bus.   

The bus drives across the causeway into a drop off at Piazzale Roma, which is a central starting point for many of the water bus lines and is where people have to park if they drive their cars into Venice.  We boarded our vaporetto (water bus) there, and headed south and east on the Grand Canal towards the Rialto Market. 

 

In this photo, taken from the north, you can see the railroad/highway causeway we had to cross coming into town.