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January paddle
Venice Kayak doesn’t really do many tours in the winter, but we’ve had a few in the last few weeks. Yesterday’s paddle was on a foggy day, postponed from the day before which was even foggier, so we ended up doing a rather different tour as we couldn’t do some of the open water passages…
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Happy New Year
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Merry Christmas
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Winter in Copenhagen
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Ancient graffiti
The current entrance to the hospital in Venice originally housed the Scuola Grande di San Marco, an important confraternity and one of the six Scuole Grandi of Venice. In the early 19th century it was turned into a military hospital by the then Austrian rulers of Venice, and later it became a civilian hospital. The…
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Night in Venice
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Today’s high tide (flooded is red)
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Google Canal view
Google has launched Street View for Venice, and also Canal View. In the limited space available in Venice, both on land and on water, it was hard not to notice the cameras, which were taken around the city on special back packs and on boats. We spotted this boat on the Grand Canal in August.…
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Winter project: rowing a gondola
My winter project this year is to learn how to row a gondola well enough to move around the canals of Venice. For now, however, we’re rowing in the area of the Certosa, Vignole and Sant’Erasmo Islands in the lagoon.
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A bit of high water
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Venetian mystery solved
Who took the lion’s share … Of feline dental care? He did! (the lions are on the side of the Punto della Dogana in Venice)
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The death of an island
The island Madonna del Monte, aka Madonna del Rosario, is a small island in the Venetian lagoon, located on the canal which connects Murano and Burano. It is dying a slow death. The islands housed a monastery for a period in the Middle Ages, but then lay abandoned for centuries, until another monastery was founded…