Venice 2008
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View over the lagoon to Venice from Fusina | |||
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Our humble abode | |||
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Ships did pass in the night. | |||
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Marco Polo ! | |||
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Cruise ships dwarfing the City | |||
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Landing from Fusina | |||
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The Grand Canal | |||
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Ice cream man ! | |||
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My new shorts ! | |||
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Campanile at San Marco | |||
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Not Pisa, but the Greek church | |||
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...and from the Questura side. | |||
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Bridge of sighs | |||
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Campanile and the Basilica | |||
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Basilica | |||
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Rialto bridge | |||
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Did not realise those poles were so deep ! (from the Rialto Bridge) | |||
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Contarini del Bovolo | |||
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L'Orologio della Torre di San Marco |
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Traditional gondola builders | |||
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The plod | |||
| A day around the islands ! | ||||
| Murano..famous for centuries of glass manufacturing, much like Venice but a bit quieter. | ||||
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Faro lighthouse | |||
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The main drag in Murano | |||
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Glass warehouse | |||
| Burano..centuries of lace manufacturing until around 1700 and now they just seem to use a lot of bright paint ! | ||||
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Colour by numbers in Burano | |||
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| The Lido (meaning sandbank) is a long thin island that protects the lagoon from the Adriatic and lots of Venetand gives its name to all other lido in the world | ||||
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The lido, down the cheap end | |||
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The posh end at bar Caribe next door to the Excelsior hotel | |||
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Check the rates |
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Stars entrance from the lagoon | |||
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The private beach | |||
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Overlooking Lake Garda |
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Have a guess ! | |||
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Bloody tourists ! | |||
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Esmerelda ! it's the bells.... | |||
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Charles de Gaul airport, very swish. | |||
