My 3 days in Venice

Old Aug 31st, 2016, 07:53 AM
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My 3 days in Venice

The blog on my trip report to Venice now has a link. You can find it here:

http://altecockertravels.weebly.com/...er-2-2016.html

Remember I am still working on the trip report and the photos might be put up later depending on how quickly they load.
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Old Sep 1st, 2016, 09:45 AM
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The blog is now just about complete. The show moves to Florence tomorrow. There will be a new blog for Florence
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Old Sep 1st, 2016, 12:46 PM
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Beautiful photos!
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Old Sep 1st, 2016, 01:22 PM
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Still unable to read your blog.
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Thanks for this - we are now booked for La Traviata on your recommendation. It looks great!
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Old Sep 1st, 2016, 05:52 PM
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I really enjoyed this. I leave for Venice a week from tomorrow for 5 days. Reading this has me even more excited and it doesn't matter this will be my 3rd return trip.

I have to say I am sorry about your luggage woes. I swear you must be related to me. My last trip, I came home with no handle. It got stuck and when pulled, no more handle. Also came home once with a missing wheel. Luggage is great when when it all works but no handle or a wheel and boy is it hard to get it home. Worse when it happens in the middle of a trip.
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I'm in Venice from September 25th, departing October 12th. It's the Architecture Biennale that is drawing me there. A couple of years ago, I had only three or four days for the Archi Biennale, and it really grabbed me on an intellectual level, a completely new way of thinking about the built environment, how we as a society, interact with our environment.

So I'm giving myself a couple of days at the Giardini, a couple more at the Arsenale, plus Certosa and Forte Marghera. Maybe a day trip to Verona to visit the Castel Vechio again, Padua for the street market and the botanical gardens, San Vito di Altivore for the Brion Mauseleum, maybe Possagno for the Canova plaster casts.

Oh, and attend church on Sunday at St Georges, mixing with the Anglophone diaspora in Venice.
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Old Sep 2nd, 2016, 11:18 PM
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Luggage woes can be a royal pain in the ass--especially in a place like Venice where you have to eventually walk luggage. On the train to Florence I carefully left the handle up. So someone rearranges the luggage and thoughtfully depresses the handle. More difficulty getting it up in Florence. Only the train to Rome and the bus to the airport to go so should not be much of a problem. I have had luggage wheel problems on other trips--as where one cracks and/or falls off. You are right that it would have been worse earlier in the trip. Stuff like that generally ends in the purchase of a new suitcase--which I need like a hole in the head having a huge collection at home.

Obviously, the suitcase (a crappy Chinese model bought to get an oversize Burmese marionnette home from a trip to SE Asia) is trash once I get home.
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Old Sep 13th, 2016, 05:36 PM
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Loved reading this and the Florence blog. We were there a week before you and it brought back wonderful memories. I so appreciated your sense of humor and the many adventures that you shared!
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Old Sep 13th, 2016, 06:15 PM
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I am now back and posting the photos from Florence when we went to the hill town and had lunch on the chianti wine trail. I also will wrap up the Florence blog and then repost it as a trip report.

I had a truly wonderful trip. The offending suitcase has been tossed. By the time I returned, the airline had succeeded in breaking the handle entirely off.

I am now enjoying, at least temporarily, visiting my house.
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Old Sep 14th, 2016, 07:51 AM
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Today is my last day in Venice and I had to chuckle while finding my hotel on the day I arrived. I am only a few doors down from the polar bear windows. I immediately recognized it from you pictures.

Good riddence to your luggage. Newer luggage is much ligher.
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Old Sep 14th, 2016, 10:56 AM
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Polar bear windows?

Yes, my suitcase with the broken handle went out with the trash. I'll buy a new one before I do another long trip, but none is in the offing at this time as I am going to concentrate on downsizing and moving to a condo I already own nearby. The winter months will be spent readying my home for sale. Any travel planned is within the US for now.
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Old Sep 14th, 2016, 11:11 PM
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Polar bear windows?

Yes the pictures of the female and male maniquin for the moncler store. As I came down the stairs looked to the right I said, ooh my I just saw them on line at fodors. .
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Old Sep 19th, 2016, 02:04 PM
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Oh, yes, I think I photographed those windows. They were funny. I just didn't connect what you said with those windows for some reason. I stayed in a different area and saw the windows when I went to the opera in the Palazzo and walked that way.
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Old Sep 19th, 2016, 02:54 PM
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Lauren, I've thoroughly enjoyed your trip report.
Question: where was the header picture of your blog taken? The one with the waterfalls. Iceland?
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Alte Cocker, I love the concept of your title, blog and way of reporting. You are an inspiration to all of your fellow alte cockers everywhere. You go girl!
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Old Sep 20th, 2016, 04:24 PM
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Thanks for the positive feedback. The whole point of the blog is to get altecockers out of their rocking chairs and away from their knitting. Anyone can do what I do provided they are in reasonable health. It just requires a lot of planning and willing to be flexible.

I have had an inundation of offers from Australia recently--all turned down. I've been there 3 times and unless someone gives me somewhere I have not been, it's done. I think one person just wrote me for the 2nd time. Who knows where the next trip will be? It's part of the adventure.
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Old Sep 20th, 2016, 05:33 PM
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Loved reading your blog/trip report!! I'm an altecocker, and I'd love to get out more, except for an alterercocker who doesn't want to be home alone while I'm gone.
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When there are 2 AlteCockers involved, whether to go or stay is a more difficult decision and sometimes a lot of negotiation.

I am just catching up with all the post trip chores--and planning a trip to NYC and New Orleans in Jan.-Feb. On that one another AlteCocker will accompany me--a former home exchanger from Melbourne, Australia, who has become a good friend. The last time we saw each other was for lunch in Paris in 2015. He was coming and I was going. We see each other like that occasionally. This time he snagged a home exchange in New Orleans and I will get to see that city--a place I have never been. It's not as exotic as a trip to Europe but it will be a blast. We will meet in NYC for a few days and then come to my place in DC for the inauguration before flying to NOLA.

After NOLA I go on to visit a friend in Florida for a few days (an AlteCocker from high school) and he goes to Boston. Don't ask me why anyone goes to Boston in February. He probably has another home exchange there. Dunno. Maybe he will get lucky and it won't snow.

There is also a woman in France that I have become good friends with through a home exchange. Most exchangers you never see again, but some do become good friends.
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I just looked at this and realized I never answered the question about the header photo. It is indeed from Iceland--during the 1st part of the trip.
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