Train and Grand Canal

One way to enter Venice is via train, over the causeway and debark at Sant Lucia station-right on the Grand Canal. We had arranged a water taxi from our hotel on the Lido. So, after a very long night on the sleeper-perhaps more appropriately-the interupted sleeper due to 6 passport checks, we were escorted to our water taxi and taken through the Grand Canal to the Hotel Excelsior on the Lido. There we got much appreciated coffee while waiting for our shuttle bus to our hotel, the Des Bains.

House along the causway (from the train).

The train station and levitating protectress who oversees travelers.

Our taxi from the train station.

We know that this was a sea captain's house from the columns on the roof.