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| Africa | Florence | Germany | Greece | Interlaken |
| Lugano | Milano | Monaco | Prague | Venice |
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Tania,
her mother, and I visited Venice on the same weekend we visited
Florence. They had more family to
visit there, but I know it was another blatant reason to visit one of
the biggest tourist cities in Italy. We arrived near sunset met up with
Dave and Benny, who traveled quite far to hang out with us. We ate
dinner on one of the main canals and enjoyed fine Italian cuisine. The city
architecture and the layout of the city itself is very unique.
The city is on water and all of the major streets are water
canals. Police boats cruise the
narrow canals among locals boats. We couldn’t resist taking a gondola
ride through the town. Special thanks
to Norris (Tania’s mother) for spotting the ride. We shopped around
the second day and bought famous Venetian masks - the locals wear the
masks during Carnival. I also
got some crazy insects for the birthday of my entomology-major
girlfriend. To me Venice wasn’t all that it was made out to be. The canals were dirty (again a very distinct trait of major Italian cities) and the whole city was geared towards tourists. I am not a big city person and enjoy spending my time in more remote area away from the tourists. |
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Living large in Venice with Tania and gang, hanging out in a mid afternoon gondola ride. (Picture taken by Norris a.k.a. Mama Bear) | |||
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Picture of a typical water canal in downtown Venice. The water actually looks clean in this picture. | |||
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Picture taken from the waterbus going into Venice. You can’t take your car into the city so they provide a water shuttle service to get you into town. It was beautiful day! | |||
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Photography by Kohta Tabuchi ::: yossi33kt@yahoo.com Web design by Wilson Tai ::: wilson@racingmix.com |
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