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Tag Archives: canals
BoatChaseGondolaDestructionHorror
From the James Bond film Moonraker. I love the silly bits at the end, like the pigeon doing a double-take, or the guy at the table deciding that a gondola driving through the Piazza San Marco is a good reason … Continue reading
Posted in Gondolas, Venice
Tagged boats, canals, film, gondola, gondolier, James Bond, palace, palazzo, Piazza San Marco, San Trovaso, squero, venezia, Venice, Venice history, video
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Thomas Coryat on Canals
Englishman Thomas Coryat visited Venice in 1611 and described the canals: “The channels (which are called in Latin euripi or the channels, aestuaria, that is, pretty little armes of the Sea, because they ebbe and flow every sixe houres) are very … Continue reading
Posted in Gondolas, Venice, Writing
Tagged canals, gondola, gondolier, history, Italian history, Thomas Coryat, travel, venezia, Venice, Venice history, writing
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Specchi
Sometimes, if you’re lucky, the canals turn into mirrors. I wish the sky had been a clearer, deeper blue this day. I guess I could have made that happen in photoshopland, but these shots are all natural. But I can’t … Continue reading
Posted in Venice
Tagged boats, bridges, canals, Canareggio, fondamenta, ghetto, Misericordia, palaces, photos, travel, venezia, Venice
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A Million Diamonds
I crossed a bridge today the sun flashed in my eyes so brilliantly I could not see cutting out squares of shadow on a shortbread path a million diamonds glistened and held me in their grasp bounding off the … Continue reading
Posted in Venice
Tagged canals, churches, Grand Canal, Salute, travel, venezia, Venice, writing
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Gondola Mambo
I thought sharks in Venice were a certain abomination. Talk about crazy B movies! And then I saw penguins in Venice! The Penguins of Madagascar are certainly world travelers. From the Antarctic, they make a brief sojourn in a Madagascar … Continue reading
Puzzling #3
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November 7, 2015
Tagged canals, forcola, gondola, gondolier, travel, venezia, Venice
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