Interesting. Same here, Pal, site forbidden. Perhaps for latimes subscribers only?

Will google sandoli now, Bert.

Under the "I'm feeling lucky" google option, the following came up when I googled "gondola vs sandola"

http://gondolablog.blogspot.com/2009...olo-limbo.html

That's a great site, TDudette. Thanks! I'll have to "Feel lucky" more often!

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First Female Gondolier Has Venice Talking
It took more than a thousand years for a woman to break into the all male ranks of Venetian gondoliers. The German born woman who will take ...
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Venice's first female gondolier pushes off into uncharted waters ...
Jul 21, 2009 ... As a little girl in Venice, Giorgia Boscolo was forever bugging her father to let her ride with him in his gondola.
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10.San Lazzaro degli Armeni is a small island in the Venetian Lagoon, completely occupied by a _________ that is the mother-house of the Mekhitarist Order, the island is one of the world's foremost centers of Armenian culture.

took this from a google search that led me to http://www.shejapan.com/whs/venice/Multiple.html and this nugget

Hi Bert,
Calle della Morte runs from the north west corner of Campo Bandiera e Moro. It's about a metre wide, runs straight north, and then turns right (east) and joins into Saliz. San Antonin. It shows on one of my maps, but is not named on the map.

It is too narrow to drag an elephant down it, unless the elephant were first to be butchered.

Cheers

Peter

Thanks, Peter. The street is shown on my maps too, but it is not named. A search on venicexplorer also failed to find it - I've let them know.
I took a trip to San Lazzaro last September. I'll put a couple of photos on the trivia album.
Still not getting anything from Palenque's links.

Senior moment. It was May 2006, not September last year. I was still on film then, so not so profligate with the shots I took. Those (now posted on trivia album) were the only three photos I took. I wish I'd taken one of the monk who led the tour, but I guess I thought it would have been a bit rude. They don't actually allow photos inside, so don't tell anyone about the Tiepolo;-)

Caffe dei Frari.... where is it located? The Frari is my favorite place in Venice..... how could we have missed the Caffe......????? -

It's at San Polo, 2564. Thanks to this trivia thread, we should all find that with no trouble!

Here's a link to a Google map, for a start:

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?oe=ut...7344332&li=lmd

The Google map shows the right area (sort of), but that marker pin is quite a long way out. Try www.ombra.net. You can search for all sorts of things - palaces, bars, hotels, churches etc. - you can also search for 'civic numbers'. If you know the sestiere, click on the one you want on the drop-down menu, then enter the number in the appropriate place. If their computer finds what you are looking for, the name of the street (calle), fondamenta, campo, or whatever, will appear. If you then click on that, a map will appear with an annoying red pulsating disc on the exact spot. Do this for San Polo 2564, and you will get the Caffè dei Frari, which is right in front of the Frari Church, on the Fondamenta dei Frari, a couple of metres north of the Ponte dei Frari. [If their computer does not find what you are looking for, you get an error message, and an invitation to let them know what you think may be incorrect - i.e. if you are sure the place exists, but their computer cannot find it.] Heather Rocco seems to have taken more photos of Venice in one day than even I did, and one of them is this one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/heather...7621213362617/
[which is how I knew about the canopy - which may be what a Scotsman might say when caught short in Venice and faced with one of Yvonne's "anti-public conveniences" ]

Googlemaps seems to have found San Polo 2654. Can computers suffer from dyslexia? [I believe this is the correct term, even though it's numbers, not letters, that have been transposed.]

Stop Press! Peter - Canova's hand was returned to Possagno in 2008 to be reunited with his body! It was removed after his death in 1822 and kept at the Accademia till last year.
How macabre!

Bert, I'm glad that Canova's body is finally being re-assembled. I'm sure that he'd be happy!

ttt

I find the mapping utilities at Venice Explorer to work very well. Your can search by street name, civic number -- many different options.

http://maps.venicexplorer.net/maps.php?hlangs=en

Last time I was in Venice I asked a pair of gondoliers about the gondoliera - they'd never heard of her! I asked a couple more, and they said she was a the San Toma station. I didn't have time to find her.
I've added a three more photos to the trivia album - I hope you find them interesting but trivial.

I'll look for la gondoliera when I'm next in Venice, Bert. And, in the last photo of the ones you just added, what is that object, please? Looks like a deadly weapon.

It won't take long for someone to identify where I took this photo.

http://picasaweb.google.com/yvonne.t...95426367951506

Oh, darn. I just found the whole album posted, not the one photo. And, because I am still a novice with Picasa, there are some duplications. Mi dispiace! (I'm sorry.)

Allora, Bert!! Is that last object an unexploded bomb?