Dimora Dei Fiori Venice
Santa Croce 555 Venice, Veneto, Italy
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18. A Sinking City
After a stunning drive through the alps from Innsbruck, into Italy with all its rustic charm and vineyard after vineyard, we came to the magical fantasy land of Venezia. At first it seems like a theme park for adults - filled with expensive tourist trap restaurants, hawkers selling all manner of souvenirs, men chasing you with roses, and gondoliers …
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Canals, Masks and getting lost.
... bell tower in front of me.
Just to the left of the bell tower was a clock and this was where we
were meeting for a glass blowing demonstration, but before I got to
the spot I picked up a Venetian hat and gondola shirt as well as a
bag. On getting to the meeting point I discovered that some of the
guys had got the same stuff but dressed up in them as well. When we
had all met up we walked to a a glass factory – munaro glass. We
had ...
We made it
... We agreed on Mama Who Bore Me with Catherine singing the lead. the director david, a British chap was vey nice and proceeded to make us all wear Venetian Period gowns (they smelled authentic), I in fact donned a robe similar to chuck Heston's Moses costume. We went to dinner at this fun little Italian bistro and had gelatin for dinner. The kids then proceed to ...
Venezia (Venice!)
... church! I can't imagine how much time it took to create the beautiful artwork! The church was really different than all the ones we've seen before because the floor is all crooked and bumpy. We asked our tour guide and he said it was because the church is right underneath the water and the water has caused the floor to move!! It's not super obvious, but you can tell the floor is crooked when you're walking on it. It was such a bizarre feeling, ...
Done it, this far at least
... at that. It's a shame it's been so wasted there was never a chance of industry relocating to this remote area. They have built the roads and buildings o f which only 10-20% have businesses in them, but no houses schools etc, and those apartment sites that have been started are lying idle and have been for years. As I come across more and more there seems to be a pattern. The agriculturally poor land has been turned ...



