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November 29, 2005

Messing about in boats

I've always loved the idea of Venice. Its origins are not auspicious. Fishing villagers from the mainland escaping marauding barbarians by moving to a foetid, mosquito ridden lagoon far off shore. It seems to have worked for them. When they ran out of land, they created it by driving hundreds of thousands of logs deep into the mire, capping them with flagstones and buildings.

And they wound up with views like this. (click for a bigger version)
It is, in my eyes, the most wonderous city in the world for many reasons.

Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at November 29, 2005 12:06 PM

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