Venice | Venice
Feb.13.2013
I couldn’t find the right words to write about beautiful Venice but I can still find something to say about less lofty objects like the bidet in our hotel washroom.
Growing up in Israel and spending my twenties and thirties in the US I hardly ever came across one of those creations...
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Feb.07.2013
last weekend we spent in Venice and had a wonderful time: the whole city was celebrating the Carnival of Venice. We walked the streets surrounded by grown- ups dressed in elaborated period costumes and covered in masks.
When we got back my daughter asked me why I didn’t write...
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Jan.22.2013
Had to take the car to the body shop yesterday. On the way back I stopped at new supermarket over towards Mountain View (Google HQ) with a great cheese counter and an amazing array of fruit and vegetables including a dozen--maybe more--kinds of fresh mushrooms, jumbo, tiny, separate and big enough...
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Sep.02.2012
Sometimes, the wind carries in through my windows the faint sound of bells from a Tudor church that stands right by the river. On a Sunday morning, it is a joyous pealing. In the evening, the sound is more measured, more akin to the Anglican chant of the evensong it precedes.
A...
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Jul.31.2012
The tourist buzz about Venice says don't go there. Word on the street: It's an overcrowded, overpriced tourist trap. But when I told my sister and her husband--long-time residents of Italy--that I was skipping it, they were aghast. To say they dragged me there would be an overstatement. Let'...
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Dec.17.2011
In her book The World of Venice, Jan Morris describes an arrival at one of the most artful places in the world. "It is very old, and very grand, and bent-backed... It is a gnarled but gorgeous city... [It] seems to shimmer -- with pinkness, with age, with self-satisfaction, with sadness, with...
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Oct.12.2011
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Traveling via water taxi, Venice, Italy
Travel is my thing.
I love seeing new places, eating new foods, meeting new people, and experiencing new things.
Maybe the travel bug...
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Sep.11.2011
3 For Italy
“La Dolce Vita!”
By
Cynthia Vespia
pt I Rome
There are some things in life that just have to be experienced firsthand. A trip to the old country was one of those experiences. So with my father Charlie, and my friend Kelly in tow, we took off on the morning of March 14th 2007...
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Sep.09.2011
I spent two weeks in Italy once, in 2004. I went with my mother and we were supposed to join a tour, but as we couldn’t make the date for the tour group, we hacked it out on our own instead. Drifting in places where English was not the most facile medium of communication without even a map of the...
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