Venezia - 2nd June 2015. Today we take a day off our travels to play tourists. What’s the difference between travelling and being a tourist, you may well ask. Sight seeing dominates a tourist’s focus. As travellers, we want to taste touch, smell, hear, feel and even see life as it unfolds for ordinary folk in foreign circumstances. For our day out we have chosen Venezia or Venice as we call it. We are camped on the Italian mainland at Malcontenta. Now I am struggling with the Italian language. ‘Malcontent “ to me means unhappy. Given the Italian’s habits of putting a vowel on the end of a word to increase the meaning for anything ranging from plural or ‘ place of ‘ to female vs male of a species, I am beginning to think that
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