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By lostsomewhere
December 28th 2009

Winter in Venezia (Venice) Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

waiting

When Henry Miller said about travel that your destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things, he must have had Venice in mind. Being here transports you so out of the norm that it's like being in another world, even another time. We arrived on the 20th to a cold and gray day with the temperatures in the low 30s and freshly fallen snow covering the ground. The north of Italy has been gripped by cold and snowy weather the previous week. From the airport we took the Alaliguna water bus a more scenic option than the [View Full Entry]

By Abu Dhabi art guru
December 20th 2009

Venice with snow! Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

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Wow Venice in the snow!........ Venice at the best of times is beautiful..... but to see it with snow and also some flooding was extraordinarily beautiful! For this treat, we had to endure some freezing weather...but after living in the desert, that only made it more exciting and adventurous. We enjoyed the novelty of rugging up. Myself...I wore three thermal tops, thermal leggings, two pairs of gloves, two pairs of socks, thermal beanie, jacket and coat!! We were happy to retreat back to our hotel for a hot spa bath at the end of each day! Wandering the narrow back streets, [View Full Entry]

By blackandgold
December 15th 2009

Experiencing Venice Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

Walking to the Dante Alighieri Institute for Italian class

So I realized that I’ve posted blogs of all my European adventures, but I haven’t covered home territory very much and I’m kind of lacking on Venice pictures. So I thought I’d post a short blog on our Venice happenings throughout the semester, from class trips to fun excursions. So there are captions with every picture, but here’s a quick lowdown of the major ones! Thanksgiving: Venice Style- A Thanksgiving without turkey, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie was pretty brutal, but we celebrated Thanksgiving Venice style with our class at a local osteria. I have to [View Full Entry]

The class with the lagoon and Venice in the background

At Santa Margherita for drinks with our Italian professor Paolo!

By AdrianaIna
December 5th 2009

Acqua Alta Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

Acqua alta

Our last few days in Venice were lovely. The mornings started out bright and warm; a treat, as we had not had sun for more than two weeks. This lovely weather came with something else, though: the acqua alta, or high water. Frequent in the fall and spring, this acqua alta brings water into Venice's streets and squares and houses and shops. Piazza San Marco floods routinely, but in Dorsoduro, where we lived, not so often. But our last week in Venice, starting at midnight, we heard the alarms sound. If you are unprepared, the alarms are, um, alarming. They [View Full Entry]

By cool breeze
October 23rd 2009

Venice Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

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Travel date: May 2008 The land indescribable in words and photographs - literally. You can get a feel of Venice only once you’re IN Venice !!! we got off the lazy airport waited for the bus which was an astonishing 15 mins late (the only time something was ever late in Europe). Dumped bags & headed off to the streets of Venice…. grabbed the 1st pizza we could lay our hands on (YUMM- who says authentic italian pizzas are bland???!!!) Most lanes leading to st mark’s square had lovely small souvenir shops selling magnets & masks. We hogged on ice creams, [View Full Entry]

By Andy n Jen
October 21st 2009

beautiful venice Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

dusky

Ahhh beautiful venice....The city of romance, rivulets, cananls and gondalas. When we arrived it was drizzling but the sky was clear and as expected the place was beautiful...We caught the boat from the bus station on the grand canal to the foot of our hotal.....The Hotel Rialto.... Yes folks thats right we lashed out for this once as we found out our termination payments had come through (thanks to a phone call from mama at 330am!) ....whoo hooo. Our Hotel was literally at the base of the rialto bridge. We quickly took the chance to get rid of our gear and [View Full Entry]

our cheesy coloured room in hotel rialto hehe!!

By blackandgold
October 16th 2009

Doing Venice Vaporetti Style Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

Living the Venice life!

Defintion of Vaporetti Style: Where you get liters of wine for 2 euros and drink them while you are waiting for the sllllooowww water bus to arrive, and because you can just do that kind of stuff in Italy :) Brrr Im freezing! It has been so cold here the last few days. The beginning of my trip was glorious- 75 and sunny everyday. Then all of the sudden it got down to like 45-50 and windy! We definately did not pack the right clothes, anticipating that it would only be like this near our end of our trip (thats what [View Full Entry]

E in the middle of Venice partly barefoot with dog poop on her shoe...classic.

By blackandgold
October 10th 2009

Gondolas, wine and the beach. Welcome to Venice! Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

Elyse and I at the beach at Lido!

The first week in Venice has been such a whirlwind!! Even though I’m in one of the most beautiful cities in the world on what would seem to be a 3 month long vacation, I’ve felt like I haven’t had a spare minute this entire week! With classes, readings and class tours of the city, I haven’t had much time to explore the city for myself. However, this weekend Elyse and I have been taking it easy, catching up on homework (this is definitely not a slack off study abroad program!) and “attempting” (this being the key word) to explore the [View Full Entry]

By Zezz
October 8th 2009

GETTING LOST IN VENICE ? NEVER ! Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

Santa Maria Gloriosa Dei Frari

Back from our holiday in Europe in September, our 3 day stay in Venice was most memorable. We arrived by train from Rome and lugged our suitcases across the first bridge and walked about 15 minutes to our Hotel Al Sole. Unfortunately , there was an electrical fault in several rooms , so for the first night we were bumped to a room down the road in Casanova. This room was great. Though up 2 flights ( with 2 large suitcases this is a slight problem with no lift ) the room was fresh and new and clean with a new [View Full Entry]

Looking out of the Bridge of Sighs across to San Giorgio

By VeroBen
October 7th 2009

Venise = fonte du porte-feuille Europe » Italy » Veneto » Venice

A notre arrivée tôt le matin

Bonjour à vous ! Nous sommes maintenant rendu à Venise après une nuit en train plutot pénible. Nous sommes arrivé très tot et avons pu constater que les Italiens ne commencent pas leurs journées très tot. Notre impression : Venise est capable du meilleur comme du pire. Nous avons adoré les vaporettos (petit-moyen bateau nous promenant dans les canaux) C'est très agréable et assez rapide. également quelques petites rues plutot biens et de la bonne gelato. MIAMMMM Toutefois, les batiments semblent tomber en ruine, et la ville n'est pas très propre. Les habitants laissent leur sac de pou [View Full Entry]

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