Category Italy
Roaming in Rome
The dulcet tones of the acqua alta siren woke us again this morning at 6.30. It’s not an “oh my god the city is flooding and you’re going to drown” type of siren, rather an “oh by the way there’s going to be a bit of water about, you might want to get your gumboots […]
After the Flood
Having survived the highest acqua alta in living memory we spent a hasty afternoon, after the race, making plans to evacuate early this morning. Debbie and Ian, off to Rome on the 9.30am from Venice St Lucia, and the flood expected to return at 9.3oam, elected to do the get up when the first warning siren […]
Come Hell or High Water
The first warning siren sounded at 5.30am, but none of us knew what it was and we ignored it and went back to sleep. An hour later, we heard it again – it doesn’t sound like an emergency siren but we realised it meant something. We looked out of the window and saw six inches […]
Wet Feet in Venice
Its 7.00am on the morning of the big Venice Street Orienteering Race. Four anxious Legends of Street O had a restless night, buoyed by our performances in the Park O event the previous day, we were expecting great things. All four of us got round in good times and few mistakes, even me still weakened […]
Best Fun Ever …
… and that was just the warmup race – we haven’t even got to the main event. This morning we had to navigate our way to the event centre, on the other side of the main Venice tourist islands. So glad we have that map from Ian G. Then we joined the chaos of registration […]
Venice’s shame.
Ilze and I have spent two days in Venice now. Rescued Debbie and Ian from the Vaporeto stop last night after they flew in from Zurich and poured them into bed. Woken at 7am by the bells from the local campanile. What’s with these religious fanatics banging on first thing in the morning to get […]
Bella Venezia
Ah, Venice – a thousand bridges, a thousand gondolas, a thousand photos … I love this place. I loved it last time in 1992, and it’s even better this time around. We have a remarkably accurate map (thanks Ian G) and have been able to wander a myriad of small streets, bridges and squares with […]
Venice StreetO Here We Come
Well it’s really happening now – we’ve entered the Venice Street Orienteering! The website opened a couple of weeks ago and it was a big relief to see that we’d guessed the correct date, and that the event we’d planned our entire trip around was actually going ahead. We navigated our way through the slightly […]
What’s The Plan?
First up, Deb and Ian head to Paris, where we’ll stay in an appartement in Bastille. Armed with a map (what else) and Metro tickets, we’ll take a week to explore our surroundings, indulge ourselves at the patisseries and try and live a little like the locals. Deb knows how to say “un croissant s’il […]
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