Short hair is much cooler

At least in temperature...Venice is very hot. Or, as we say when we fan ourselves "Fa caldo!" (It's hot!). So far my biggest fans in Venice are the mosquitoes, who have devoured my upper arms through the night. Italians don't believe in window screens- they think it ruins the view! Here's a pic of me on the balcony in my apartment in Venice.

First days in Venice

July 29th 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008: I lug my 48 pound bag and one large carry-on up three flights of stairs to my landlady’s apartment in Venice around four o’clock in the afternoon. After 18 hours of airports and airplanes, I’m surprised to find that I have any energy at all, although the sunny boat trip from the Marco Polo airport to the waterbus Sant’Angelo stop was the exact shot in the arm that I ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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