Don't people fall into the canals in Venice?
May 28th, 2002, 01:35 PM
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Don't people fall into the canals in Venice?
Where I live the folks get pretty tipsy during and after dinner and on night's out on the town and they drink and drive. How about in Venice, do they drink and walk and fall into canals? Seems pretty easy to do.
May 28th, 2002, 01:40 PM
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Not to my knowledge but an interesting sidestory - Until recently some huge number of cars each year ended up in the Amsterdam Canals. People parked headed toward the canals and when drunk would just misjudge the edge. For this reason the insurance companies financed the low metal guardrails that separate the parking area from the canals. Now only 7 cars a year end up in the drink. But 15,000 bikes are pulled out every year. (source: our Canal boat guide)
May 28th, 2002, 01:48 PM
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The only one I have witnessed was Katharine Hepburn in the movie Summertime. Just watched the movie again this weekend. Having just returned from Venice, everything in the movie was remarkably the same as we had just seen (the movie was made in about 1955).
May 28th, 2002, 02:22 PM
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Last year a group of us girls were walking and talking and laughing after dinner and vino. I was walking backwards facing them to laugh some more when I noticed their faces took on shocked looks so I stopped and turned about 2 inches from the edge of a canal. Then I teetered and tottered on my toes for a minute or two to get my balance...so you do have to be careful.
