René’s old blog
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Regata Storica 2013
The Regata Storica is the most important rowing event in Venice. It always takes place on the first Sunday of September, this year on the first of September.
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Death in Venice
Having made a living out of kayaking in Venice, whenever accidents happen on the water it always leaves an impression. This time so much more as the accident left an innocent tourist dead. The accident happened on August 17th just before noon, at the Rialto bridge, in a spot we very often use to take […]
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Aliens in Venice
Venice has been a conspicuous absentee from Google Street view for a long time. It’s not really odd as the photos for street view are collected by special cars, and Venice is a mostly pedestrian city. Consequently, Google now relies on pedestrians for taking all the photos for street view in Venice.
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Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook – NP530U3C-A08IT – Debian Wheezy installation
I’ve bought a Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook, model NP530U3C-A08IT to be exact, and Italian version.
Its a 13″ laptop, 1,5kg with a 128Gb SSD disk. I received with it another 120 Gb SSD disk, which I have used to install Debian Wheezy, keeping the original disk with a never booted Windows 8 apart.
It is a medium sized laptop, measuring 31,5×29,9×1,7cm (W×D×H).
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S-ciopon
Ever since I moved to Venice I have wanted to do more rowing Venetian style, voga alla veneta, where you row standing up and looking forward while pushing the oar, basically like you see the gondolas being rowed around Venice. When I lived on the Lido a few years back, I went rowing at the […]
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2012
I haven’t updated this blog for ages, too much work generally, which naturally gives me no right to complain. To compensate I have picked a one or two photos from each month of 2012, showing a bit of what I’ve been doing this past year. January In January I was back in Denmark to see […]
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Valley Pintail – the very last
In July I was on a brief visit to Canada and Michigan where I participated in the Great Lakes Sea Kayak Symposium. On one of the tours I was on there was a beautiful three-part almost golden Valley Pintail, and the owner, a local coach named Belinda, let me have a go in it in the waves. It was such a fantastic boat. A few weeks later, again back in Venice, I spotted a notice on a British blog that Valley Sea Kayaks would terminate a bunch of older Valley models, including the Pintail: Valley Sea Kayaks have just announced that they are intending to rationalise their range of sea kayaks. … The result of this rationalisation process is that certain models are to be discontinued permanently. The last date for placing orders with Valley is the 31st of August this year so anyone considering purchasing one of the soon-to-be discontinued models has just over a week to make a decision and place an order.
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Redentore 2012
The Redentore feast is one of the main popular celebrations during the Venetian year. It is held on the third Sunday of July to celebrate the end of a devastating plague epidemic in the 16th century, which lead to the construction of the Redentore Church on the Giudecca island. On Satuday evening there is traditionally […]
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I Want Your Outdoor Job: René Seindal, Owner of Venice Kayak | paddlinginstructor.com
David H. Johnston of the Paddling Instructor blog have published an interview with me in the series “I Want Your Outdoor Job” series on the blog. I’m deeply honoured. via I Want Your Outdoor Job: René Seindal, Owner of Venice Kayak | paddlinginstructor.com.
