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About Venice, Italy.
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The most dysfunctional doorway in Venice
Such a beautiful loser. I often go back to the Rio Ponte Longo, right by the bridge, to marvel at the portal that disrespects the physical laws of the universe. Each time, I kind of expect to discover a gaping...
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Breaking news: two Venetian restaurants open in Venice
In what is considered a stunning blow to mask stores, burger chains, and sellers of tiny glass gondola-shaped candle holders, two new Osterias that serve "typical Venetian food" have actually opened their doors in Venice. In a city with a...
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Cool ship models
Between the Frari and the Rialto, at San Polo 2681, there's a cool little store that features scale models and model kits of Venetian boats. The proprietor is an interesting guy named Gilberto Penzo. He sells his wares online at...
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Hide The Children: It's Carnevale Time
At Carnevale time, Venetians tend to fall into two camps: retreaters and revelers. The retreaters avoid pre-Lenten open spaces, especially at night. They take the back calles and stay clear of the Piazza (except for a mandatory ombra in the...
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Wither Thom Price?
A couple years ago I posted about Thom Price, a young American who opened a traditional gondola workshop in Venice called Squero Canaletto. (Squero is Venetian dialect for -- surprise -- "gondola workshop") . Thom had a website with occasionally...
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Campo San Vidal
I used to think of Campo San Vidal as the landing zone on the other side of the Accademia Bridge in San Marco. A place to be rushed through, not savored. An artery. I never paid much attention to it,...
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HDR photography in Venice
In photography, "dynamic range" essentially refers to the range of brightness and darkness in an image. Take an indoor picture of a person standing by a window on a sunny day. The picture you get either has the person looking...
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Still In Venice
Lots of posts coming when I get back ... upload logistics are challenging here. I have shot more than 3000 photos. Stay tuned.
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After The World Cup
We were in the Piazza on Sunday night when Italy took the World Cup ... lots of restrained exuberance, big flag waving, hugging, singing. The orchestra at I Quadri, wearing Azzurri shirts, playing "We Are The Champions" at the moment...
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Venice and Ebay
Type Venice into Ebay tonight, and you get a list of about 2600 items up for auction. Some cool stuff in there, but there are too many misses. Venice, California. Venice, Florida. Shoes.Thomas Kincade painting (kill me now). Endless bad...
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An Inconvenient Truth
NASA oceanographers announced this month that sea level rose, on average, 3 millimeters (0.1 inches) per year between 1993 and 2005. They think about half came from melting ice and half from thermal expansion as the ocean soaks up heat...
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Has Enough Money Been Spent Trying To Save Venice?
Veniceblog reader Glyn writes:"The Royal Geographical Society in Britain has a debate in London next Monday evening, 12 June, on the question "Has enough money been spent saving Venice?" Any Venetophiles who will be in London that day can book...
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Schmistory
I've been looking for children's books about Venice so I can get my bambini properly propagandized before the July trip. I figured the Marco Polo story had probably been defanged and sweetened into kiddy format by some children's author somewhere,...
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Easy Cell Phones In Venice
If you really want to feel like a freak in Venice, walk around without a cell phone. Italy has among the highest cell penetration and the cheapest airtime in the world. You'll even see gondoliers yacking on their telefonini with...
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In Venice soon. Finally.
I have probably been to Venice 15 times since my first trip in the late 80's, including a year and a half residency in 1998-99. But here's an irony: ever since I started this blog, going on three years ago,...
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Arriva Aperol
A couple years ago I wrote about the various forms Venetian Spritz, that bubbly, ubiquitious snort that you can find at any bar in the city. Looks like that original post is the first thing that pops up in Google...
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Livio De Marchi
Livio De Marchi is a Venetian master sculptor who works exclusively -- and improbably -- in wood. He is not subtle: witness the motor-powered full-size land/sea Ferrari replica freaking out the vaporetto passengers above. Trained at Venice's Accademia di Belle...
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Foreign Wedding Boom
According to the Comune di Venezia, more and more wedding gondolas are being filled with non-Italians. Over the last decade, there has been a 254% increase in the number of marriages in Venice in which both groom and bride were...
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Panic at the Fenice
Power to the La Fenice opera house mysteriously shut down yesterday, disabling the sophisticated fire prevention technology that was installed to prevent a repeat of the 1997 tragedy, when the landmark jewelbox was reduced to a smoldering pit. Members of...
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Advice For Handicapped Visitors to Venice
Over the last few months, I've gotten a few emails from folks wondering about how people with disabilities might best cope with barriers when visiting Venice. A city of bridges, stairs and water creates formidable logistical challenges, to put it...
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Rialto: Mostly Foreign Fish
This surprised me. Only about 20% of the fish sold at the Rialto fish market come from local waters.This according to a new statistical bulletin put out by Il Mercato Ittico del Tronchetto, as reported in today's Gazzettino. While some...
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Vap Prices Hiked
ACTV has just hiked the vaporetto ticket prices in time for Carnevale.Basic, one way, non-Grand Canal trips, now cost 5 euros, up from 3.50 euros. That's pretty major. Day passes go up too (10.50 euros from 12.60 euros), but remain...
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Jumpy Jacko in Venice Vamoose
Apparently Michael Jackson flew into Marco Polo Airport incognito with his two kids last week, but he left immediately before disembarking when word slipped. The airport reception area was reportedly jammed with media. His reason for coming to town? Beyond...
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This Morning's Activity
A paper Canalazzo, about 7 feet long. Natalie Venezia and Miles, on the job. Nat imagines submarines gliding under the Rialto. Miles wanted to put a boat on top of a palazzo. It's all for Grandma's 67th birthday ... we're...
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Pigeon Football
Authorities are looking for some cruelly inventive kids who started an impromptu game of pigeon football in Piazza San Marco yesterday. Lots of witnesses saw the feather-flying action, but apparently, the carabinieri arrived after the final whistle. At the end,...
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Calatrava Dreaming
Let's see now. The Calatrava bridge over the Canal Grande, connecting the train station with Piazzale Roma was supposed to be completed in June 2004. Febuary 2006: no bridge. Cost overruns are reported to be in the 1 million euros...
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Nebbia
Winter means fog in Venice. The winter nebbia there, as it's called in Italian, is quite unlike anything I have experienced: dense, hood-on-the-head, rain-cloud-come-to-earth fog that seemed to sock us in at least every other morning. As we lived on...
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Piazza San Marco at Night: Panoramic Photo
I've just posted a full, 360-degree panoramic image of Piazza San Marco at night. Click here to see it. As you'll notice, the image is exceptionally wide. The Piazza is bathed in gold. The slow exposure fills the square with...
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Hackers Pull Down the City of Venice's Website
At this writing, here's what you see when you visit the website of the Comune di Venezia, the city's official site (click on it for an enlargement): What it says, in effect is:Because of an attack perpetrated by unknown persons...
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The Lion of St. Mark
Back in the day on Madison Avenue, Tom Quinn and I made commercials together for Tide Laundry Detergent. He was my client at P&G and I was the ad agency account guy. His boss (and my senior client) was an...
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