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Welcome to Venice ... relax ... enjoy the view ... but no unauthorised sitting you pesky tourist! That's right folks, park your carcass anywhere in St Mark's Square and you could wind up being slapped with a 50 euro fine. Grazie molto!

> gondolas (january 2002)
Gondolas (January 2002)

And it finally looks like they're doing something to stop it all being washed away, which is bloody marvellous because it's a magic place and something people really should still be able to see in a few hundred years time.

"To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius."
  - Alexander Herzen
12.8.03 / 0 comment(s)


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