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August 6, 2012: One of the best ways of knowing the city is to watch the early morning routine, how the city wakes up, how the empty streets fill gradually, how the shops are opened one by one, how the local people go by their routine. Fortunately, we had an apartment which had a balcony […]

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August 6, 2012: One of the unique things about Venice is clearly its Gondola rides. While, historically in this city of canals these flat-bottom boats were the main means of transportation, they are now mostly tourist pleasures. It is estimated that there were eight to ten thousand gondolas during the 17th and 18th century. There […]

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August 6, 2012 It was a great treat for us when we stumbled upon a chance to attend a concert in Venice. Entering a square we saw that Vivaldi’s music was being performed by the local Venetian Orchestra at a very elegant concert hall and that the tickets were still available for tonight.  We had […]

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August 6, 2012: When one thinks of Venice, Italy one immediately pictures canals and beautiful bridges. We had seen many wonderful paintings and pictures of this city but now we were actually seeing it in real. While pictures worth 1000 words, actually seeing worth 1000 pictures. The beauty of Venice is that how easy it […]

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August 6, 2012. One of the main attractions in Venice in general is walking the streets of the city. Every corner there is a beautiful balcony with flowers, line of windows with ornaments. Every few blocks there are squares where people sit and relax.  We found many spots along the way and stopped to catch […]

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August 6, 2012. It was very clear that in Venice there were so many things to do and with our short stay in Venice we were going to touch upon only few of the many landmarks of the city. Piazza San Marco or also known as St. Mark’s Square was the one we headed to […]

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August 6, 2012: The morning of August the 6th was very pleasant and much anticipated. We arrived in Venice last night and saw beautiful streets and squares but not much water and canals or bridges.  What an extraordinary morning we had when we woke up in Venice. The apartment was a three bedroom apartment with […]

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August 5, 2012: We had visited Florence, we had gone to Pisa and now it was time to travel to Venice, Italy. We had about 200 miles to drive to Venice from Pisa. We arrived at the gates of Venice around 9 pm. It was getting dark and we were not sure how long will […]

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August 5, 2012: After Florence we wanted to drive to Pisa which is about 100 miles west of Florence. While our plan was to go to Venice after seeing Florence so that we can make it to Venice before sunset, however, not going to Pisa to see Leaning Tower of Pisa was not a good […]