Category Italy
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 […]
POT LUCK
Another cold, but clear sunny day. Pete got up early and went to the Mercato Rialto (Rialto market) on the traghetto (gondola which short-cuts backwards and forwards straight across from one side of the Grand Canal to the other for 1 Euro each way) and came home with pork and fresh veg for dinner. I […]
ARRIVEDERCI FLORENCE, CIAO VENICE
We woke to our last morning in Florence and looked out of the window to a forest of umbrellas. It’s raining but we don’t care ‘cos we’re off to La Serenissima. But first, a last walk down to the river Arno, and the Galileo museum, where we happily spent a very interesting couple of hours […]
NEVER TRAVEL WITHOUT DUCT TAPE
We were up quite late last night, for us that is. We did not leave to go out for dinner until after 8.00pm Such a spectacular day yesterday and it took its Toll. Pun intended But it is has gone 8am and Ilze is still asleep in spite of the booming from the nearby Campanile. […]
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