Comments on: Venice http://www.oldworldwandering.com/2007/01/08/venice/ London to Shanghai, by land Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:35:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Damascus: Part I » Old World Wandering: A Travelogue > London to Shanghai, by land http://www.oldworldwandering.com/2007/01/08/venice/#comment-16275 Wed, 02 May 2007 11:15:14 +0000 http://www.oldworldwandering.com/2007/01/08/venice/#comment-16275 [...] We had inadvertently entered the old city through the souq and now weaved our way into the narrows of old Damascus. A few random turns and we were in a maze of impossibly interlaced homes, their doorways hidden amongst dim alleys. We stooped under an archway, layered with black basalt and white limestone stripes: typically Damascene. Continuing beneath gothic arches we crept through the peaceful quietude, as lost as in Venice’s winding streets. This city within a city had the pleasant isolation of an island: beyond the souq, its pulse was unhurried; these residential streets were free of cars, and the web of alleys was left alone to float in the centre of traffic-crazed modern Damascus. [...] […] We had inadvertently entered the old city through the souq and now weaved our way into the narrows of old Damascus. A few random turns and we were in a maze of impossibly interlaced homes, their doorways hidden amongst dim alleys. We stooped under an archway, layered with black basalt and white limestone stripes: typically Damascene. Continuing beneath gothic arches we crept through the peaceful quietude, as lost as in Venice’s winding streets. This city within a city had the pleasant isolation of an island: beyond the souq, its pulse was unhurried; these residential streets were free of cars, and the web of alleys was left alone to float in the centre of traffic-crazed modern Damascus. […]

]]> by: Heather http://www.oldworldwandering.com/2007/01/08/venice/#comment-1298 Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:25:08 +0000 http://www.oldworldwandering.com/2007/01/08/venice/#comment-1298 Your article is full of interesting tit-bits of which I was not aware, making me wish that it was longer! Your photographs are "lovely" and make it easy to understand your frequent use of the word whilst in Venice. Your article is full of interesting tit-bits of which I was not aware, making me wish that it was longer!
Your photographs are “lovely” and make it easy to understand your frequent use of the word whilst in Venice.

]]> by: Marc http://www.oldworldwandering.com/2007/01/08/venice/#comment-1263 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:11:36 +0000 http://www.oldworldwandering.com/2007/01/08/venice/#comment-1263 :-) :-)

]]> by: Iain http://www.oldworldwandering.com/2007/01/08/venice/#comment-1234 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:44:17 +0000 http://www.oldworldwandering.com/2007/01/08/venice/#comment-1234 I enjoyed Venice, thoroughly. It turned me into the most obvious of tourists: my camera was never far from hand and I used the world "lovely" lots (both things I'd not normally do). But it did feel like wandering through an open air museum, apart from Stephano and an elderly Venetian lady who stridently berated me, in Italian, for touching her Economist - despite the fact that I was trying to buy it. Most people, apparently, spend only a day on the island. They don't contribute anything but the price of lunch and some bottled water to the local economy and put enormous pressure on its infrastructure. I found this article quite useful: <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/29/news/venice.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/29/news/venice.php</a> I enjoyed Venice, thoroughly. It turned me into the most obvious of tourists: my camera was never far from hand and I used the world “lovely” lots (both things I’d not normally do).

But it did feel like wandering through an open air museum, apart from Stephano and an elderly Venetian lady who stridently berated me, in Italian, for touching her Economist - despite the fact that I was trying to buy it.

Most people, apparently, spend only a day on the island. They don’t contribute anything but the price of lunch and some bottled water to the local economy and put enormous pressure on its infrastructure.

I found this article quite useful:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/29/news/venice.php

]]> by: Marc http://www.oldworldwandering.com/2007/01/08/venice/#comment-1230 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:37:06 +0000 http://www.oldworldwandering.com/2007/01/08/venice/#comment-1230 So you enjoyed Venice? Or depressed from Venice? So you enjoyed Venice? Or depressed from Venice?

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