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• Guest 657

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  26 March 2011     20:4298787
  #1      
  Hi, sorry I've not been around much lately, just got back from Venice. We went there on honeymoon and decided to return for our 5th wedding anniversary. I've attched a few photos.
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  
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• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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  26 March 2011     20:4398788
  #2      
  ooooooooo very nice.now jelous.loverly photos.
• Guest 649

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  26 March 2011     20:4698789
  #3      
  Very nice Thank you.
• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  26 March 2011     20:5898796
  #4      
  Absolutely brilliant photos Jeanne - thank you. And good to have you back!
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  26 March 2011     21:0598803
  #5      
  beautiful pictures of a beautiful city, while it still lasts.
  
  did you develope the stutter there jeanne?
• Guest 657

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  26 March 2011     21:1598814
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  Thanks, it is such an amazing place I took hundreds of photos. We did lots of sightseeing and took a trip out to the cemetery island of San Michele. Isola di San Michele was a former prison island and is now Venice's cemetery. It became a lagoon cemetery in the early 1800s when Napoleon's occupying forces told the Venetians to ferry their dead across the water instead of burying them in the town!
  
  I accidently got locked inside a church - it could only happen to me! .
  
  Must be the pppppigeons Howard!
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• Guest 640

  • Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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  27 March 2011     09:5298868
  #7      
  Yes indeed lovely pictures there Jeane. Welcome back... looks like you were having a great time. There is a fantastic painting isnt there, called the Isle of the Dead about that very island. I used to know these things off the top of my head but forget for the moment who painted it, but a lovely haunting painting..worth checking out.
  
  
  One of these days I might make it to Venice myself.
  
  
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• Guest 657

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  27 March 2011     10:3798870
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  The Isle of the dead by Swiss artist Arnold Bocklin, 1880. The inspiration was believed to be an island near Corfu. It's very eerie looking.
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• Guest 640

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  27 March 2011     11:5698872
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  Ah yes Arnold Bocklin thats the one. I did have a copy of it pinned to the wall one time. Although I feel sure this picture and there were several versions of it, was supposed to represent the isle off Venice, although its clearly a work of 'artistic license'.
  
  For those who delight in all things gloomy, I recommend Rachmaninov's version of same, which he composed after being inspired by the painting...also called Isle of the Dead. Fabulous piece of music, goes hand in hand with the all enveloping vision of the painting itself. Both go together very well particular for those who want to enjoy a sombre reflective half hour or so.
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• Guest 645

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  27 March 2011     12:5198876
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  I suppose you listen to that in between the Dubliners and the Pogues whilst sipping your vintage Guinness ...
  Marek
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• Keith Sansum1

  • Location: london
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  27 March 2011     13:4098880
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  Fantastic pics jeane
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• Guest 657

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  28 March 2011     08:3198922
  #12      
  Thanks Keith.
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• Melissa Pile

  • Location: Dover
  28 March 2011     08:3198923
  #13      
  Ah they are lovley except the one with the birds in yuk i dont like being close the any birds like that but hope you had a wonderful time
• Guest 657

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  28 March 2011     08:3398924
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  Thanks Melissa. I have always had a thing about pigeons. The ones in Venice were very clean but I always carry wipes and scrub my hands afterwards.
  
  We had a great time and it was a very welcome break.
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• Guest 656

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  28 March 2011     11:5398946
  #15      
  Nice pictures Jeane, Ah! sweet memories, honeymooned in Venice, a must to visit before one leaves this mortal planet