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13-01-2020, 05:06 PM
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Re: Venice drying out!!

Originally Posted by Percy Vere ->
I wouldn't actually bother going. It's so full of tourists now you can't get round, prices are sky high, and the place actually stinks to high heaven.

We went for a long weekend when we lived in Italy back in the early 90s and it stunk then.
I couldn,t agree with you more. We went once, Never again!!
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13-01-2020, 05:09 PM
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Re: Venice drying out!!

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I saw it on BBC TV Omah.
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Ok, thanks - nothing on the website yet so I'll watch the 1300 news .....
Still no confirmation on BBC News, website or elsewhere .....
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13-01-2020, 05:18 PM
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Re: Venice drying out!!

I saw it too .... there you go Omah. On Sky.
https://news.sky.com/story/venice-ca...oding-11907106

Mind you, it doesn't look to be a new thing. They almost dried up two years ago in Feb 2018.
https://www.countryliving.com/uk/new...ain-low-tides/
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13-01-2020, 06:04 PM
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Re: Venice drying out!!

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I saw it too .... there you go Omah. On Sky.
https://news.sky.com/story/venice-ca...oding-11907106
Yep, Sky is the only source .....
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13-01-2020, 06:13 PM
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Re: Venice drying out!!

Originally Posted by Percy Vere ->
I wouldn't actually bother going. It's so full of tourists now you can't get round, prices are sky high, and the place actually stinks to high heaven.

We went for a long weekend when we lived in Italy back in the early 90s and it stunk then.
Sounds like Paris!
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13-01-2020, 08:09 PM
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Re: Venice drying out!!

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I couldn,t agree with you more. We went once, Never again!!
I camped there for three days in the 1950s, it smelt ok then!
But l did wonder where the sewage went?
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13-01-2020, 08:23 PM
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Re: Venice drying out!!

Originally Posted by Donkeyman ->
I camped there for three days in the 1950s, it smelt ok then!
But l did wonder where the sewage went?
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Right into the canals of course. When it has rained, sitting by the waterside, you see the human waste float by.
Normally it sinks to the bottom and is broken down by microbes within hours. However, better not swim in the canals.
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13-01-2020, 09:58 PM
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Re: Venice drying out!!

Gondolas going cheap on eBay.
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13-01-2020, 10:59 PM
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Re: Venice drying out!!

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It's tilting and sinking anyway isn't it?
Have they figured out how to stop it yet.
It is afterall only a collection of over 100 little islands with bridges and canals between them, I think, I could be wrong.

Looks a lovely place for atmosphere, great in that Donald Sutherland film 'Don't Look Now'... but also damn dirty looking at low tide, like now.

It's a place I'd like to go, if only once.
I didn't notice him, only Julie Christie...... funny that!
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14-01-2020, 01:34 AM
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Re: Venice drying out!!

The (brief) story is now on the BBC website but the contents are almost identical to the Sky website - no-one else seems to be making a comment so is this "story" just a syndicated article rather than "news" .....
 
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