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Originally Posted by dreamon
(Post 16968530)
I'm surprised and disappointed if the ABC have jumped the gun - they're usually pretty reliable but maybe there was some wishful thinking going on? bvlenci, I'll be keen to hear if you hear anything further in Italy.
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Originally Posted by kja
(Post 16967492)
Finally! :yay:
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The picture made my day, werth! Thank you. I feel the same way.
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Maybe something got lost in translation.
There is one thing they got right, though. To my surprise, the Ministry of Transportation is trying, or maybe pretending, to get involved. That vague statement I translated above was issued by the Ministry. Obviously, they can't make regulations for Venice, but they could make national rules about distances from land to be respected by large ships. |
For the 1,837th time here, I say.....go see the doc 'The Venice Syndrome'. It examines the daily lives of several diverse Venetians and how tourism, as symbolized by the large cruise ships, effects their lives (does it ever). By strange coincidence, it premiered in our city the eve before we flew over to Italy!
On that visit to Venice, I chanced across the aristocratic contessa widow who was one of the aforementioned doc's featured locals. At first, she was hostile and demanded to know why I was photographing some of her neighbour's roses there in Dorsoduro (I was in fact discretely standing on the public path). After suddenly recognized her, I played the star-struck groupie: "Oh my!! Aren't you that Contessa from the big documentary film?!" She was extremely flattered (my design) and her suspicions about me disappeared beneath much vanity. We then hit it off and had a nice chat. By fluke on that same visit, we also chanced across local nobleman/TV presenter Francesco da Mosto on Vap. #1. We tried hard not to gush as we told him how much we've enjoyed his various BBC travel docs. His informed opinion about the cruise ship controversy would be worth hearing. I am done. The leviathon. |
Today I saw a similar story on the BBC web site, saying that beginning in September some of the largest cruise ships would be diverted from the center of Venice, and that by the end of 2020 they expected one third of large ships to be diverted.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49276730 They quoted the Financial Times. I found the article, "Venice to give cruise ships a wide berth", but I can't read it because I'm not a subscriber. From the BBC article, I found a few other possible search terms, so I searched again for news in Italian, but couldn't find anything concrete. The only thing I found is the news article that I quoted above, which was apparently based on a news conference held by the Minister of Transport. Anyway, the government is about to fall, and they say there will be new elections in October, so he won't be around any more in Novermber. |
Werth,
Me, as well and still laughing! |
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