Category: Living in Venice
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SUP in Venice
It’s the first time I’ve seen SUP boards on the Canal Grande. They seemed to do well when I saw them, but I’ve heard some of them ended on the water at the Rialto Bridge, which is often a busy spot.
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Camouflage, Burano style
On Burano orange, lime, lilac and pink are viable camouflage colours. Burano is known for its brightly coloured houses, and its a fun pass time to search for houses matching people’s clothes. You don’t need to stand out just because you’re wearing pink.
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Redentore 2011
The Redentore Feast is one of the major annual celebrations in Venice, and one with a massive local participation. It takes place on the third Sunday of July, and on the evening before there is a huge display of fireworks just before midnight. It usually last around 45 minutes. I went there with a bunch…
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Training in the lagoon
This guy just went up and down a short stretch of lagoon canal behind the Vignole, training in a little corner sheltered from the winds of the day.
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Working boats
Venetian boats at work. There’s a green grocer on a boat behind the gondola, and a topo to the right. Three different uses for boats in Venice.
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Venetian Truck Drivers
This boat is a “topo”, a Venetian truck, with a crew of two. One is steering, almost with the rudder up his behind, the other is sleeping soundly on the fore deck, while they pass a 14th century monastery building and a 17th century church.
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The Naviglio di Brenta
The Naviglio di Brenta is the old part of the river Brenta, which had its estuary in the Lagoon of Venice close to Fusina. After the demise of the city of Torcello in the 11th adn 12th century, the Venetian understood the cause. The river Sile had made a vast delta behind Torcello, causing the…
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Reflections
At the end of the year we’re supposed to reflect on the year that passed. I have found that a bit hard this year, so I’ve decided to leave the reflections to the vaporetto (water bus) platforms of Venice. They do a good job at reflecting 🙂 Santa Maria della Salute Santa Maria della Salute…
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Lessico Veneto – Malamocco
I recently found some scanned books from Venice of times past. One of them is a kind of historical encyclopedia from the mid 19th century, and I must say it has its little oddities 🙂 The entry for Malamocco – a small hamlet on the Lido di Venezia with a glorious past – reads: Malamocco,…
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Female Gondoliere
Until recently all gondoliere in Venice were men. This summer a Venetian woman, the daughter of a gondoliere, decided to try the exam, and she passed it as the first woman ever. New gondoliere will start to work as substitutes for the older gondoliere, taking their turns when they’re unable to do so. They also…