Venice and Jesolo beach

We headed off to Venice today, trying to get most of the riding out the way. The weather was great for riding, but still, we had to contend with all the crazy Italian riders on the road.

Eventually arriving in Venice, we headed to find the port where our ferry boat was sailing from, before we headed to find a suitable campsite. It was suggested by one of the locals that the coast of Jesolo was beautiful and that we would be able to find some nice accomadation there, so we headed off in that direction, finding that most of the camping, motel's and hotels where all closed for the season.

With not much luck finding anything, i then suggested to Lindsay that we try some one star hotels that seemed to still be trading, which is when we came across the Perle Hotel. We explained that we were doing a trip down to South Africa and would appreciate there help, they allowed us to stay and even offered to park the bikes in there breakfast area, which made everything soooo much easyier, because we wanted to explore Venice city the next day before we headed to Egypt on Thursday.

We were so blessed to find Hotel Perle Jesolo, they went out of there way to help us with internet, breakfast ....they were amazing and we definately recommend them and will definately go back.

Also, dont let the one star fool you, i've seen 4 star hotels with less to offer than what you get and the hotel is a family business too.

The next day was an early start as we headed off to Venice, the weather was beautifully hot, we decided to catch the bus towards Punte Sabionne to catch a ferry to Venice. We did eventually manage to get there with a few issues along the way..
Wow....Beautiful in its own way, loads of people, gondolas, boats, venders everywhere, really great. It was a total maze......it would take ages to just see every single street and alleyway. A lot of the streets where only accessible by boat and all post and deliveries were done by people on foot, where possible,.......it was great....no bicycles, cars, scooters......a whole different world.
We got off at St Marco square and walked through some of the city, but then decided to get a ferry heading back round on the river to St Marco square to be able to get sight of all the other sights not available by foot, what a great ride and way to see some of the city.
Later on we headed back to Jesolo to try and catch some rays on their beautiful beach, afterwhich we headed into the little city for a spot of Italian cuisine, which is where I managed to spill red wine all over Lindsay's new white t–shirt.....(by accident.....might i add, sorry.........).

Another early start the next morning with a great breakfast again from the Zanon family, we were ready now to head to Africa.
We made it to the check in at 10am where we meet up with Andre and we noticed 6 other bikes and a few Land Rovers doing the same trip.....which was great.

So we were really excited now...that we finally starting our African Adventure.