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Did We Ever

My sweet husband had arranged to have us picked up at the airport when we first landed in Venice. How lovely it was after that long trip not to have to worry about taxis or translations or water ferries. Instead, we were met by a most handsome Italian in a well-cut...

Venice, first blush

There was lots we wanted to see and do on Day One in Venice, and it was all underlined with this objective: Stay awake. We’d both experienced intense week-before-vacation-work insanity, then had gotten up early on Saturday to catch the flight. By the time we...

When We Are 70

When we are 70, we are going to smoke and fly first class, he pronounced, as we sat under a canal-side canopy in the wildly romantic city of Venice. I laughed out loud, giddy with excitement to have finally begun Day One of our Trip-Of-A-Lifetime. We were sipping...

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