Monthly Archives: November 2016
THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT RUN and Orchids.
Today is our penultimate day in Singapore the LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT RUN, after moving hotels in the middle of the night (more on this some other time) we were so stressed that we didn’t drop off to sleep for ages. Consequently we woke at 9.30 and almost missed breakfast, which is served until 10 […]
THE LYING, THE WHICH AND THE WARDROBE.
Today is Sunday, we think, which means this must be Belgium. Actually it turns out that it is Singapore. When we found out six months ago that Emirates no longer flew from KL to Melbourne and had shunted us on to an Malaysian Air Services flight, we ran around in circles screaming so we then […]
FROM 0 DEGREE WITH A WIND CHILL FACTOR.
FROM 0 DEGREES WITH WIND CHILL FACTOR to……. Wednesday dawned, our last full day in Venice. It’s very cold; 3 degrees overnight, and overcast with an expected top of 5 degrees. Where are the warm beanies, scarves, windproof coats and gloves? The wind blowing across the Laguna is wickedly cold, (wind chill factor is serious) […]
A TALE OF TWO CITIES.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES. Actually it is a tale of two islands, but after being away from home for nearly a month, hysteria is close to the surface and I no longer care. We went to Murano yesterday, at least we meant to, but we forgot to get off the ferry and ended up […]
ACQUA ALTA
Three blogs in one day must be some kind of record! This one won’t be very long – thank goodness, you say? We would have slep in this morning, but were woken at 7.10 am by a long drawn out siren, followed by a single mournful tone advising all us Venetians of an impending Acqua […]
THE GREAT RACE.
The Great Race. Ilze has already reported on our decision not to compete in Race One in Jessolo Lido, due to the amount of time it took to get there, we wanted to save ourselves for the night race, after all it was the main reason we came. Well rested we set off just after […]
TO BE OR NOT TO BE
That was the question – whether we should bite the bullet and go to race 1, the sprint at Jesolo Lido, or to save our energy for THE NIGHT RACE IN VENICE. After not much debate we decided it was not to be. When we went to register on Friday, the round trip had taken […]
SEVEN CLUB RECORDS IN ONE DAY.
The 35th Movement Orienting Venice, MOV, XXXV started to -day with the opening of the registration centre in Lido Jesolo, 54 kms from Venice and over on the mainland just north of the famed Lido resort. Why? I don’t think even the organisers knew. Ilze set seven new Dandenong Ranges Orienteering Club jacket records today […]
ISLAND HOPPING.
We took pity on our poor feet today and after almost a week of walking all over Venice, we went island hopping. Laguna Veneza is packed with literally hundreds of islands, large and small. North of Venice and accessible by water bus are the tourist drawing islands of San Michele, the cemetery island, Murano, Burano […]
VENETIAN LIFE IS ALSO ABOUT THE SMALL THINGS.
It is our last day, on foot, in Venice. To-morrow we activate our 7 day Veneze Unica card which allows us unlimited daily travel on the Vaporetto and buses that we will need to get out to the Lido and Eracle Mare for the orienteering events that begin in on Friday. We decided to only […]
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