After two beautiful sunny days with pleasant temperatures in Venice, we awoke to rain. So I packed up my camera and used my iPhone for the rest of the photos on this trip.

With nothing much to do in our AirBnB, we headed to the nearby water bus station, Guglie. We had purchased tickets the night before at a small shop nearby, but there was an attendant present to sell them to those who did not have them.

The attendant told us the water buses were very crowded and they were putting on extras. Our water bus passed by with a full load not even slowing down. We waited and waited. Fortunately we had plenty of time to get to the airport.

Finally the water bus arrived and we were off down the canal then across open water. We entered a channel that I had photographed from the air during our flight to Venice two weeks earlier. It was amazing how fast the water buses and taxis traveled and how close they passed to one another. In my tiny notebook I wrote, “we could have easily skied behind the water bus.” This channel, and in fact most of the canals in Venice, was definitely not a “No Wake” zone.

After a long walk into the terminal, I had about an hour to wait before the empty Aer Lingus gate opened for check in. So I found one of the few available seats and waited.

That was a mistake because when I headed to the gate there was a mob scene.

After figuring out where the back of the line was and standing in line for a while, I had a hunch that since I had check in online from our AirBnB, there might be a short line for a Bag Drop that I could get to. I spotted it at Station 9 and worked my way around the right side. That worked well.

Then it was downstairs to a crowded area to wait some more.

I finally boarded the plane around 12:20 PM, twenty five minutes after it was due to depart. I don’t recall how I did it, but I was one of the first to board.

We waited a long time at the gate after everyone was on board and then waited a long time part way out to the runway. I started to worry about missing my connection to Boston in Dublin. I knew I had to go through US Immigration there and I wasn’t sure how long that would take or how it would work. Finally at 1:20 PM we were in the air, over an hour late.

Enroute to Ireland I saw some Glories below the plane. Here are two photos shot through the badly scratched window of the plane. That is the shadow of the airplane in the middle of the glory.

 

I saw some rainbows as we approached Dublin, but got better ones after we departed.

I had only 20 minutes to catch my flight to Boston, but things went well in Dublin. All those on this flight go through US Immigration in Dublin so the flight lands in the US just like a domestic flight. This was a great help because I had only a very short time in Boston to catch the Dartmouth Coach or I would have to wait two hours for the next bus.

Immigration went quickly and I even had a few minutes to grab a snack and use up the rest of my Euros. Shortly after we were in the air I was able to photograph a nice rainbow.

Soon after the rainbow there was another glory.

 

The scene approaching Boston was similar to when we left with the low evening sun reflecting off the water.

Soon we would be on the ground.

My bag was the 4th to come down the shoot in Boston. And since this was just like a domestic flight I could walk directly to the bus stop. I wonder if they ever examined the bag I checked though to Boston from Venice. I made the Dartmouth Coach with 15 minutes to spare.

The Celestial Lights on the flight home were a nice ending to a fantastic trip.

In the Dolomites I had seen numerous sun dogs…

… iridescent clouds …

… and a glorious rainbow near Cinque Torre and Rifugio Nuvolau from Rifugio Lagazuoi.