Venice, Italy - Day 4

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The Peggy Guggenheim Museum Peggy Guggenheim was part of the famous and very wealthy Guggenheim family but when her father died on the Titanic she and her mother were not accepted by the Guggenheim family and she  left with her mother to go to Europe.  During her life she had numerous failed marriage and didn't think she was a good daughter, wife or mother so she...

Venice, Italy - Day 3

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Food I only have three words to say about what you eat in Venice - pizza, pasta and gelato!  All delicious and about all we ate for 4 days!  Gelato!! a typical gelato store Mask Making  Just about everywhere in Venice you can find mask shops and vendors selling masks.  Some are very simple and some are really, really...

Venice, Italy - Day 2

Friday, 21 September 2012 0 comments

Bridges Because everything in Venice is connected by water, there are hundreds of bridges so that people can walk from place to place.  Many are famous and some are even special for people in love to go - if they put a lock around one of teh bridge bars it is said that they will have good luck. This bridge had a lot of locks on it. Here we are...

Venice, Italy - Day 1

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Water Venice is a city in Italy which is really cool because everything is done by water - there are no roads for cars (there are narrow streets for walking) but all travel and deliveries etc has to be done by boat.  Rather than car taxis there are water taxis.  Food and construction materials are delivered by boat, even the ambulances and police go by boat....

Nice, France

Friday, 21 September 2012 0 comments

Location: Nice is located in southern France and is considered part of the French Riviera.  Nice is now a major transportation hub in Europe, low-cost airlines now offer frequent flights to the Nice Cote d’Azur Airport from London, Paris and other cities. Food We expected to find lots of French food but actually most of the restaurants there serve Italian...

 
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