René's old blog
Whatever I feel like posting, whenever
This site goes back some twenty-five years, so it is bound to be full of stale links and irrelevant information. It is, at best, updated irregularly.
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Self Portrait
From above (or below) If it is possible to truly love a kayak I love my Skim Dex. It is probably the seat I sit in the most from April to October.
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The Entrance of the Arsenale
The entrance of the Arsenale is across a small bridge over a narrow canal. Officially the canal is closed to traffic, if not for any other reason that it is too narrow and the bridge too low for most boats.…
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The Lion King
The entrance of the Arsenale (the navy docks) in Venice is guarded by two huge lion statues, the most beautiful and majestic animal statues I have ever seen.
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More speeding – this time legally
Ambulance speeding down the Canal Grande – whenever you here a siren there you better move out of the way. We later saw the ambulance at Campo San Barnaba, where they picked up a little boy who was hurt, but…
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5km/h
There’s a speed limit of 5km/h in Venice, for all private motorized vessels. This seems to have missed that memo, though.
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Venice at dawn
A few photos from a 6am paddle yesterday morning.
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Venice is not a beach
I often tell people that if they get too playful when we’re kayaking, and forget to take the traffic in the city seriously, but on these photos, taken at 7.30 in the morning at a very low tide, it does…
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Evening Paddling in Venice
Its very hard doing justice to the experience of paddling down the Canal Grande after dark, with only a cheap point-and-shoot camera, but I’m not going to bring my SLR in a kayak.
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The Ugliest Boat in Venice
Or maybe just a contender.
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No Cars in Venice?
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Sea Kayak Design
Sea Kayak Design is an Italian kayak brand, well designed and well built. Venice Kayak has three of them, one of each of the original three models. The one on the photos is the 16ft model.