{"id":3336,"date":"2011-11-03T14:38:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T19:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=3336"},"modified":"2011-11-21T17:49:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T22:49:53","slug":"venetian-labyrinth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=3336","title":{"rendered":"Venetian Labyrinth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday – November 3, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n

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It was a bit overcast this morning and we decided to walk around the city. \u00a0All the guide-books recommend discarding maps and just stroll through the labyrinth of small back streets and alleys as the best way to see Venice.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Typical Venetian Rio<\/span><\/p>\n

Venice is a city made up of many little islands with bridges and interconnecting alleyways and canals. There are no motorized vehicles of any kind, except boats. \u00a0Because there are no cars, or bicycles, or Vespas, the city is rather quiet without the din of traffic.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Gondola Tied to a Commercial Delivery Boat<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything, and I do mean everything!, must be delivered by boat along the small canals, called “rios”. \u00a0Then workers load the cargo onto hand-trucks and deliver to all the shops, restaurants, hotels, etc. \u00a0All the deliveries are very labor-intensive.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Deliveries on the Grand Canal<\/span><\/p>\n

Throw into the mix: ferries, garbage boats, fruit & vegetable boats, vaporettos, traghettos, boat taxis, motor yachts, private runabouts, the man-propelled gondolas and you have the Venetian waterways bustling with boat traffic! \u00a0It’s great fun to watch!!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ahhh Venice….<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Gondolas and Water Taxis<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Gondolier’s Hat<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Gondolier<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Tourists in St. Mark’s Square<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Stacked Walk-Ways – Ready for “Alta Aqua”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Realto Bridge With Tourists<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Gondolas<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A Typical “Campo”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Reflection<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Gran Teatro La Fenice<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Pink Marble Lobby<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>One of Several Music Rooms<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Gondolas Everywhere!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Aciugheta – Best Pizza in Venice!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Gondola Parking Lot<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Gondolier’s Hat<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Going Home<\/p>\n

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Thursday – November 3, 2011 It was a bit overcast this morning and we decided to walk around the city. \u00a0All the guide-books recommend discarding maps and just stroll through the labyrinth of small back streets and alleys as the best way to see Venice. Typical Venetian Rio Venice is a city made up of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3568,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions\/3568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}