Manacled together for 20 years...

[tedebear]

It's a joke dear

Yes yes pet, I gathered that

 

[Titanic]

Yes yes pet, I gathered that

Just checking

 

[dougdeep]

Venice? Wouldn't Norfolk have done?

 

[Yorkie]

Go to Bruges instead. They have lots of canals, water taxis and nice places to stay. All that with Belgium beer and Belgium chocolates and far cheaper.

 

[Beach Hut]

Go to Bruges instead. They have lots of canals, water taxis and nice places to stay. All that with Belgium beer and Belgium chocolates and far cheaper.

True Bruges was very agreeable a few years back.

 

[Robot Chicken]

But Venice is the most beautiful city on earth? And there's no traffic?

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Avoid eating in St Peters Sq, its shit and WELL overpriced.

If you are thinking about going here....

...you are in the wrong city

Try

instead. If you are in Venice its much easier to find. Don't eat or drink there though - its terribly expensive.

 

[Yorkie]

Well spotted Mr Cat. It should be St Mark's Square.

 

[dougdeep]

Barcelona takes some beating, or Rome.

 

[Rangdo]

however if you want to impress the Missus take her to Harry's bar for a bellini, or two.

They've been married for 20 years. I think the opportunity to impress has long since passed.....

 

[Publius Ovidius]

One of the alarming things you first spot is how many of the towers ( like the one up above in St marks) are actually on the piss.

The one at Burano ( one of the islands) is heading towards a 45% angle


Only the Italians could build huge towers on inherrantly unstable land.

 

[NMH]

They've been married for 20 years. I think the opportunity to impress has long since passed.....

Well! That's not the sort of attitude that would be condusive to longevity. The opportunity to impress, as any sensible woman will remind you, is available any and every day.

 

[Titanic]

I fear Rangdo is much nearer the mark than NMH, but it's a very nice sentiment!

 

[Titanic]

One of the alarming things you first spot is how many of the towers ( like the one up above in St marks) are actually on the piss.

The one at Burano ( one of the islands) is heading towards a 45% angle


Only the Italians could build huge towers on inherrantly unstable land.

And having seen the latest James Bond... they seem to rely on air bags to stay up too

 

[Questions]

My mother was a streetwalker in venice.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

One of the alarming things you first spot is how many of the towers ( like the one up above in St marks) are actually on the piss.

The one at Burano ( one of the islands) is heading towards a 45% angle


Only the Italians could build huge towers on inherrantly unstable land.

The Campanile

The 99m-tall Campanile di San Marco (St. Mark's Bell Tower) was built in the 9th century as lighthouse and tower to sight enemy fleets. Modifications were made in the 12th and 16th centuries and it the reached the present appearance in 1514 by Bartolomeo Bon.

The Campanile di San Marco received historic visitors (among them Galileo who showed in 1609 his famous telescope to the doge).

It collapsed on July 14, 1902 at about 10am, because of wrong repairs that caused structural changes. The collapse was anticipated and the area cleared, so there where no human casualities. The Basilica was barely scratched by bricks and the Libreria Sansoviniana lost just its corner-wall.

It was rebuilt "dov'era e com'era" (where it was and how it was).

A decade later, on St. Mark's Day 1912, the new tower was opened.

 

[The Merry Prankster]

Guggenheim.
Fenice.

 

[maffew]

Go to Bruges instead. They have lots of canals, water taxis and nice places to stay. All that with Belgium beer and Belgium chocolates and far cheaper.

who would have thougt it belgian beer and chocolate in bruge!