Wet November days in Venice

 Pick the Australian tour guide :)

There was aqua alta and a 10 minute break in the rain and the tour guide was telling everyone about the great outside bars

Queue of gondole waiting to go under the Accademia bridge

 Very heavy rain in the middle of the day

These tourists weren't missing out on their gondola ride for anything.

I don't think that the person with the orange umbrella would have seen a thing

On the 11th of November there are usually heaps of kids around banging pots and pans and collecting money and treats. Instead of the usual paper crowns these kids had plastic firefighters' helmets -much better on a wet day and easier for parents and teachers to keep track of them.  There are flat San Martino cakes in every pasticceria - a brightly decorated man on horseback with chocolates stuck to the icing.