Venice is quite an expensive place to stay. After drinking a few bottles of Tennants Super (which appears to be some special beer in Venice – at the expensive end of the station bar menu) I did the decent thing and passed out on a bench in the sun. On regaining dehydrated sun-baked consciousness, I […]
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Superstitious Italians believe that seeing a nun is bad luck. To combat any potential misfortune, they stick out the second and fifth digits of one hand and touch their genitals with the outstretched fingertips. This I tried on seeing a nun approach. No-one told me that Italian people do it with their hands in their
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Venice is built on a swamp. Those ingenious Italians decided to ram wooden piles into the swamp, and construct ornate buildings on top of them. Unsurprisingly, some of them fell over after a thousand years of leaning. They’re doing cunning things now to stop the rest of the buildings collapsing too, but Venice still retains
