Monthly Archives: February 2015

Quattro Minuti con Casanova: San Samuele

Posted on February 28, 2015 by

Casanova’s earliest origins–San Samuele is the church where his parents were married, where Casanova was baptized, and where he gave his first one and a half sermons. Watch this video to get the full story of what he found in … Continue reading →

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Random Journal Entry

Posted on February 20, 2015 by

Here is one in a very occasional series where I type up one of my journal entries from when I was in Venice. This is from last summer, a Saturday in July when I apparently didn’t know what the date … Continue reading →

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Where Am I?

Posted on February 17, 2015 by

Can you name the actual building I was in when I took this picture? If you can do that, can you also guess why I was in that building? I’ll give you a hint: it was last July 2014.

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Acqua Alta, Acqua Viva?

Posted on February 9, 2015 by

You may have noticed the new banner I posted. It shows a number of bottles on a shelf, one of which contains water from the historically high acqua alta in December 2008. This cafe bottled some and stuck it up … Continue reading →

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The Floating City Misnomer

Posted on February 8, 2015 by

A friend recently lent me Dan Brown’s Inferno, saying, “Lots of it is set in Venice!” So I had to read it. It took a few hundred pages for the protagonist Robert Langdon to get himself to Venice, but he … Continue reading →

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