Tag: italy
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Buses, taxis & gondolas, part 1
This is part 3 of a series of 5 posts about the Grand Canal of Venice (Venezia). The city is made up of 118 islands and 150 canals. It is home to over 400 bridges and the only way to travel in this city is either on foot or by boat. Click here and here…
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Grand Canal, Venice, part 2
This is part 2 of 5 of the Grand Canal series where we share photos taken on our vaporetto rides on the canal. For Part 1, click here. Music … One end of the canal starts near Piazza San Marco and the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute (one with the domes, see photo below). The photo…
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Grand Canal, Venice, part 1
This is the first of a series of five posts about Venice’s canals. We came here to see La Biennale; there is another series of posts about the exhibition, to start on that series click here and here. Have some music to go with the post … Canal Grande or the Grand Canal is the…
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Ending up at Bácaro Jazz in Venice
This was our first day in Venice. Sis had a business trip in Europe so Sue and I(Chris) thought it would be great if we spend a few days in Venice together, taking in a bit of art at the Biennale. The plan was to meet at the Milano Centrale train station and take the Frecciabianca express…
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Piazza San Marco, Venezia
In October, we spent almost a week in Venice, primarily to attend the Biennale. We have not been to Venice since moving to the continent and the last time I(Chris) came to Venice was more than 20 years ago. We stayed on the island in the sestieri Canneregio (not far from the Ponti di Rialto). We explored…
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Our trips 2015, part 2
Dear Readers, Happy New Year ! Continuing with our first post of 2016, this post takes a look back at the places we visited in the first half of last year. In 2015, there were 94 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 650 posts. The post that had the highest number of views…