Glamorous Venice is high maintenance. The heavy industry, the transportation, and the immigrants who do the heavy lifting, all reside in nearby Mestre.
We treated Mestre as badly as everyone else, getting the hell out of town as quickly as we could. There was some decent Chow Mein, and extremely cheap mineral water. But our minds were already on the Istrian peninsula, picturing the Italy that once was in the extreme northwest corner of Croatia.
