Venice airport vantage points

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Can anyone help with assistance on photography at Marco Polo and Treviso airports please? I will have some time to kill at the end of Feb and would like info on any vantage points that are "safe" for the average viewer. Thanks.

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Treviso is well out of town, with very little activity. 1x Daily SAAB340 of Carpetair and around a half a dozen daily RYR flights account for the sum total of traffic. Mil traffic was few and far between on my last visit. A good VCE gateway on the lo-co scale, but not for the spotter.

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In the unlikely event that small aircraft interest you there is a really superb little airfield on the Lido, just a short water-bus ride from the main Island of Venice.

Treviso is nearly an hour away by road (in traffic)

Moggy

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Thanks. I am FR'ing into (& out of!) Treviso and may have a day in the middle of the holiday while "she who must be..." goes shopping :o)

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Just a quick tip garnered from my first trip to Venice a couple of months back.

Set aside a morning. Don some smart gear, arrive at Harry's Bar as it opens, (I think 11 am, but check), sit sipping overpriced but tasty Bellinis as the tourists in shorts / kagoules, whatever, are turned away.

Google 'Harry's Bar' if you need to know more. SWMBO will enjoy it more than shopping - trust me.

Moggy