Sailing around Italy- Venice

My friend and I flew to Venice, via Amsterdam, where we were scheduled to pick up our five masted sailing clipper.
Venice was as beautiful and colourful as I remembered. It was also very busy and exceedingly hot!

St. Mark's basilica glistened in the hot sun and in the gloomy interior the newly restored mosaics glowed with gold.

Here is the Royal Clipper waiting for us to board after a day of sightseeing in Venice.

We set sail in the early evening, with the help of a tug, and we were on our way to Croatia