Thursday, June 30, 2005
Acqua Alta
What better way to arrive in Venice than by boat? Cruise along the Grand Canal, step ashore at a member of the "Small Leading Hotels of the World"...
The city is of course totally surreal. Laundry leaves the hotel in the morning by boat. A DHL delivery barge glides by...
The journey here is not so smooth. Alitalia decides to cancel the flight from Milan so we go by bus instead. Stop for a break half-way. Before we leave the driver asks "Siamo tutti?" No answer, so off we go...
Iron will-power is required to resist all this food. But what the heck...
A city at least as romantic as Harry Lyme's Vienna. And in full technicolor too...
Only 6 more meals to go...
Since when did the gondoliers sing the Beatles? (Discussions with natives of Cambridge on which is the most inefficient means of transport: that or punting).
The city is of course totally surreal. Laundry leaves the hotel in the morning by boat. A DHL delivery barge glides by...
The journey here is not so smooth. Alitalia decides to cancel the flight from Milan so we go by bus instead. Stop for a break half-way. Before we leave the driver asks "Siamo tutti?" No answer, so off we go...
Iron will-power is required to resist all this food. But what the heck...
A city at least as romantic as Harry Lyme's Vienna. And in full technicolor too...
Only 6 more meals to go...
Since when did the gondoliers sing the Beatles? (Discussions with natives of Cambridge on which is the most inefficient means of transport: that or punting).
