November has arrived in Venice with a vengeance: today the sky is grey, the rain is pouring and the wind is howling! And the wind is also blowing in memories of Venice from some other dear Facebook friend: Jessica from Bootsnall! Jessica has been to Venice many times but it always amazes me how she [...]

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Memories of Venice keep flooding in ( just like acqua alta ):  this time it is my new Facebook friend Raleigh McDonald Hussung who tells us how she feels about the City of Dreams. Raleigh owns LovefromItalia.com, where you can find all the Italian products you can ask for! Thank you very much Raleigh for [...]

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San Martino – A Venetian Celebration Here in Venice every occasion is good to celebrate with either cakes, drinks or else. This time we celebrate San Martino and we do it tomorrow, 11th November. All over the province of Venice bakeries and cakes shops sell the traditional San Martino cake, a short-crust cake covered in [...]

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      Yesterday I started my new series of posts on what people remembered the best from coming to Venice. This is the second post and it is written by Shelley White, who I would like to thank very much for accepting to do this! Best Memory of Venice   Venice is our anniversary [...]

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When you travel around the world you always collect good memories and bad ones from the various cities and countries you go and visit. But there are places which always leave you an indelible mark and because of this you will never forget that smell, that view, that sound or that particular moment. Venice does [...]

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Pumpkin with candle: √ check. Fake spider webs : √ check. Scary customs: √ check. “Trick or treat” street itinerary planned through the town: √ check. Yes, all ready to go for Halloween, but one things is wrong: this is not the U.S.A.!!!! This is Oriago, a small town near Venice, the town where I [...]

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Sunday 24th October 2010 the 25th Venice Marathon will take place like every year. The race will start from Stra on the Riviera del Brenta and will run along the Brenta river up to Venice and through its calles and small street. The finish line is along Saint Marks. Do not miss it! Be Sociable, [...]

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Venice: The Arsenal Back in May 2010 I was lucky enough to visit the Arsenale in Venice. The Arsenale is usually closed to the public; it is currently used only in small part as one of the venues of the Biennale di Venezia, but for a few days a year, thanks to an event called [...]

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Have you ever wandered around Venice and got blisters on your feet and could not find a pharmacy where you could get some plasters? Have you ever run out of toothpaste, shampoo or you ladies “know what” and looked everywhere for a supermarket and could not find one amongst the calles of the city? Well, [...]

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Thanks to Twitter over the last year and half I have been meeting  so many new, fascinating and interesting people which I have lost count of it. But one person in particular I would like to thank for giving me the opportunity to visit one of the most amazing places in Venice, Orsoni Smalti Veneziani, [...]

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About 6 months ago I wrote a short piece on Venetian proverbs about food, drink and family. Those were only a little taste of a very very wide range of expressions, proverbs and ways of saying which are used in the Veneto region. As I explained in my earlier post, proverbs in our region are [...]

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So it’s here again! Stars, starlets, films, documentaries, all ready to show off or to be shown off at the most exclusive Kermesse of year in one of the most amazing cities in the World. The festival will start off on 1st September 2010 with Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky which will be the opening [...]

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HISTORIC REGATTA VENICE 2010 Sunday September 5th 2010 The Regata Storica is one of the most typical celebrations of Venice and it is the main event on the annual races calendar of Voga alla Veneta, a unique style of rowing practised for thousands of years on the lagoon. The Regatta is held on the water [...]

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Sumptuous Homes on the Canal Grande The other day I was taking my son and a young friend around Venice and I decided to use the Vaporetto (water bus) line 1, even though it is August (hot and sticky) and the boat would be packed with tourists. I wanted to ride on the water slowly [...]

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One of my young students, Erica Stefanini, has written this interesting short research on Venetian Emigration for a history exam. I translated it for you, because I found it very very interesting. ” Emigration in the last 19th Century: Veneto The first big migration of modern history has been the Italian one, starting with Venetian [...]

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Save on average 41% on your weekend city break The weekend city break has become increasingly popular amongst holidaymakers. The attraction of romance in Paris, or the outstanding sites to Barcelona, a weekend visit is featuring more in holidaymaker’s things to do. With such a trip bearing a price tag, you can find comfort in [...]

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Another year goes by, another hot and sticky summer strolls in through the canals of the lagoon and another major appointment for all Venetians is fast approaching. It is Festa del Redentore (The Redeemer’s Celebration) which this year will take place on July 17th and 18th. This event draws thousands of people to the City [...]

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Burano, the Rainbow Island I have been away from my blog for few months now, been very busy (cannot moan about that, busy means work, so…) but it has also been very hard to get back into writing. The ideas were there, the post titles where ready, but the will to write was all gone. [...]

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Today I would like to introduce you to a new book written by Susan Van Allen, the book is “100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go”. I am not a book critic, but I do love reading and above all I like when travel writers make sure to give up to date and thorough [...]

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Polenta: why do we like it so much in Venice? The first memory of the taste of polenta in my mouth goes back to the age 3 or 4. I was sitting on the back of my mum “sit-up-&-beg” bike (this is the nice term my English husband calls the Graziella bikes, which used to [...]

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