Saturday 02 October Free day or Venice by boat

Am up early today to walk the Venice six to their bus stop where they will pick up a coach to Isola and their fast ferry to Venice.
This is all a bit of a bonus to me as I was expecting to drive to Isola and also pick up later this evening. I can now enjoy a relaxing day off!
I work in my room on the new summer brochure and before lunch I have a proof ready to print. I have brought my printer with me so this shouldn't take too long.
I manage to print the first of 24 pages when i am informed by my printing machine that i require a new ink cartridge immediately. Bum! I have only brought my printer with me once before, to Lake Maggiore this time last year, and the same thing happened then as well! I should carry spares! I will carry spares!
I am sure there will be a computer shop nearby.
I wander down to reception and and ask where the nearest shop is, only to be met with blank faces, and then told that there may be one in Lucia just past where I park the bus! Great!
I then have a brainwave, I'll put it all onto a disc and the hotel can print it out from that.
This I do and feeling rather clever (I am not very high tec!) I once again go to speak with the lovely ladies at reception.
"Yes we can print that off but only in black and white" they explain to me.
"Only black and white, you're joking" I smiled back
"No, only black and white"
Bum!
"You could try the Grand Hotel which is the 5 star hotel in our complex"
So off I go the couple of hundred yards down the road to the 5 star gaff and am met with the same responce - "only in black and white!"
I'm flabbergasted to think that both a four and five star hotel in 2010 does not have a printer that can print in colour. Amazing.
I will have to sort something out quickly as it is now approaching midday and all the shops will shut at 13:00. No afternoon shopping on Saturdays here.
I call into the travel office where I bought the Venice tickets and ask the girls in there if they can help me - "only in black and white, sorry!"
There is definitely a market for colour printers here!
Back on the bus I go to Lucia where there is a shopping centre and eventually find a photography shop that has a colour printer! The man kindly prints off my 13 pages (2 brochure pages per A4 sheet) and charges me the princely sum of €13 for his efforts. This is a bit dear but to be honest I would have paid a lot more.
The brochure needs to be properly read and Our open day is two weeks today!
Feeling properly pleased with myself I catch the bus most of the way back before alighting near a nice looking pizza reataurant, where I enjoy a couple of beers and a pizza.
Spend the afternoon sleeping and working, what a hard life! Also watch Man United v Sunderland on the local tv and am pleased it ends 0 - 0.
After dinner I re read the proof sitting outside a nearby cafe and then e-mail the corrections to Dan at the printers.