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We decided to make our first beach visit of our trip. Lido is a long thin island that has the lagoon on one side and the Adriatic Sea on the other. It also has a link to the mainland so it was the first time we had seen a car in a few days. <\/p>\n

Lido Beach <\/p>\n

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Warm water means Nikki will swim.<\/p>\n

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If you have been following these daily updates you may have noticed we have been doing things a little out of the norm. This evening we took our first trip down the Grand Canal. <\/p>\n

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Church of San Giorgio Maggiore on San Giorgio island <\/p>\n

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Looking back at Piazza San Marco <\/p>\n

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The Bridge of Sighs <\/p>\n

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 St Mark’s Basilica <\/p>\n

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We bought some art work from an art teacher who recommended a great little restaurant where we had our dinner. <\/p>\n

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Venice is even more beautiful at night <\/p>\n

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It also has a link to the mainland so it was the first time we had seen a car in a few days.  Lido […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,9,6],"tags":[24,48,42,23],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-italy","category-royandnikki","category-travelogues","tag-italy","tag-lido","tag-travel","tag-venice","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/img_2980.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Ocy4-2g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129,"url":"http:\/\/eishonline.co.za\/travel\/2017\/07\/18\/hello-venice\/","url_meta":{"origin":140,"position":0},"title":"Hello Venice!","author":"Roy","date":"9 years ago","format":"video","excerpt":"After a nice short flight we caught a glimpse of the city of Venezia as we came into land at Marco Polo airport. 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