Saturday morning the 27th of April, we left Venice there wasn’t a cloud in the sky! I took a couple more photos out of our apartment windows before we bid goodbye to Venice.
Shimmering waters of the Grand Canal 
Crystal blue skies in Venice
Seamus took a fun photo of the cruise ships from the 8th floor of the parking garage. We had a bit of a conundrum leaving the parking structure. Our parking voucher had gone missing and the only way to prove it was our car was to show the rental receipt, which also was missing! Now Robert and I are very methodical about placing such items in safe places, but for some reason we couldn’t find either. It was a Saturday, which made it hard to call the rental agency in Graz. Well after tearing through the car Liam happened to look amongst our Passports and lo and behold the rental receipt was tucked inside a passport. Robert had placed it in a very safe spot that we couldn’t even find!
Once the ordeal with the parking voucher was done, we said a prayer of thanksgiving and headed out across the 3km bridge to the Italian mainland. As we drove north towards the mountains a sudden thunderstorm hit and the skies opened producing torrential downpours and pea to grape sized hail! Robert quickly found a gas station overhang for us to sit and wait out the hailstorm. It seems everyone had the same idea and before long this little rural station had cars tightly packed under the pump awnings and in the nearby fields under trees!
After 20 minutes the storm passed and blue skies met us as we drove into the Italian Alps. It wasn’t long before we were back in Graz, unloading the car and reminiscing about our two week Easter Holiday trip!
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