I’ve been looking forward to this chapter for a while - honestly think the anime version is one of my favourite episodes. Didn’t bring my book with me, though, so I’ll read it when I get home. 
I made a specific point of going to ride this exact traghetto when I visited Venice, but tragically it was raining that day, so they weren’t running. Also, the water was so high the dock was practically submerged - it wasn’t quite an acqua alta, but it wasn’t far off either.
On the topic of theme naming from last week
The full name of the girl from Himeya is あゆみ・K・ジャスミン
Meanwhile, the Orange Planet girls are アトラ・モンテヴェルディ and 夢野 杏 - along with Alice Caroll, I’m fairly sure the theme here is writers of various types (Claudio Monteverdi was a composer, Yumeno Kyūsaku is the pen name of Showa-era writer Sugiyama Taidō, Caroll is, of course, Lewis Caroll). I don’t quite get how Athena Glory fits that pattern, though.