Jun 28th, 2009 at 6:30PM: Women's Rights: 1
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Venice has broken a nine hundred year-old tradition by certifying its first female gondolier. The trade, normally handed down from father to son, recently opened up to everyone when the city of Venice introduced an official gondoliering course in 2007. That course has just had its first female graduate, the Guardian reported.
Giorgia Boscolo, a 23 year-old mother of ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Venice gets its first female gondolier
Jun 28th, 2009 at 6:30PM: Women's Rights: 1
Tradition: 0
Venice has broken a nine hundred year-old tradition by certifying its first female gondolier. The trade, normally handed down from father to son, recently opened up to everyone when the city of Venice introduced an official gondoliering course in 2007. That course has just had its first female graduate, the Guardian reported.
Giorgia Boscolo, a 23 year-old mother of ...Through the Gadling Lens: taking photographs at night
Jun 25th, 2009 at 11:00AM: Recently, I received a note from a friend of mine who'd just returned from a vacation: I just returned from a vacation in which much of our activity was at night. I didn't carry a tripod, and I was dissatisfied with using either the auto setting on the camera (the flash burst overexposed my subjects' faces) or the in-camera "night setting" (the subjects' skin seemed blurry and everything in the ...Five ways to get dirty this summer
Jun 18th, 2009 at 3:00PM: Grabbing the railing on the subway? For some of us, it's a fact of life, but I'm told there are plenty of people out there who liken it to shoving your hand in a toilet. According to a recent TripAdvisor poll of more than 4,000 travelers, around one-third consider themselves to be "germaphobic" since the H1N1 swine flu outbreak.
So, where do germaphobes go? I imagine they hang out in hospitals ...Gadling + BootsnAll - Picks of the Week (5.15.09)
May 15th, 2009 at 11:00AM: Welcome back to Gadling's weekly "Picks of the Week" feature, brought to you by our friends at travel website BootsnAll. How does it work? We input thousands of travel variables into the Gadling mainframe computer, and out comes five of the best and most interesting travel stories from BootsnAll this past week, ready for your reading pleasure. Got your 5.25" floppy disk ready? Alright, here's what ...Stinky London, Rude Paris, Romantic Venice
May 6th, 2009 at 6:00PM: If you need a sense of authority to trust a publication, you can't do better than one from Australia. So, when the Sydney Morning Herald says that Brussels is boring, you have to believe it. Likewise, Paris is overrated, and the food sucks in London (duh).
Well, if you think the folks down under have credibility problems, fear not. It was reporting on a TripAdvisor poll of nearly 2,400 travelers, ...In the top 10 of European hotels, Venice is the expensive winner
Apr 18th, 2009 at 2:00PM: European hotel booking site Trivago just released their April hotel price charts, and Venice was voted "most expensive city in Europe". At the bottom of the list is Budapest, where you can find a room for an average of 83 Euros a night. The rest of the top 10 list is as follows:
Venice (€177)
Genèva (€174)
Paris (€149)
Oslo (€146)
Amsterdam (€144)
...Sit or Squat: Website helps you find a public toilet anywhere using your cell phone
Mar 26th, 2009 at 3:00PM: One of my fondest memories of the U.S. when I lived in a dusty village in The Gambia without indoor plumbing was the smell of my grandparents' bathroom. I remembered it as smelling clean and fresh, like Charmin. Oh, how I missed it. (Actually, it might have been White Cloud, come to think of it.)
But, regardless, that's not the reason to sing Charmin praises today. Today, it's about public ...Gadling + BootsnAll - Picks of the Week (3.13.09)
Mar 13th, 2009 at 11:30AM: Welcome back to Gadling's weekly "Picks of the Week" from our friends over at travel site, BootsnAll. Every Friday we'll be bringing you some of our favorite stories this week from the site. Take a look below and click on through if you find something that catches your interest:
Weird Philippines - the Philippines is already an "out there" destination for many travelers, so it goes without ...What do backpackers do in Venice? Check it out
Venice: brought to you by Coca-Cola
Feb 24th, 2009 at 3:00PM: Venice has always been a huge tourist draw. This city of majestic canals, picturesque medieval architecture and serenading gondoliers has long attracted visitors from near and far for its historic beauty and aesthetic charms. In fact Venice hosted nearly 20 million visitors in 2008, an increase of more than 30%. Yet all is not well in this visitor-friendly Italian tourism magnet - in addition to ...Gadling take FIVE: Week of Dec. 6-12
Dec 12th, 2008 at 6:00PM: Humor is a great travel tool, particularly if you've had a bit of bad luck like I did when I was pickpocketed this week in Copenhagen--or if the tide is high and the streets have flooded, such as what has happened in Venice. In Venice's situation, as Jeffery points out, there's hope in boots.
Or, perhaps that travel companion you thought you were in love with has turned out to be a bust. Brenda ...Venice is totally flooded. How about a cheap hotel and some boots?
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Dec 12th, 2008 at 10:00AM: You kind of expect a visit to Venice will include some water. This uniquely Italian city, first settled by the Romans along a chain of islands on the Adriatic Sea, has always been inextricably tied to its watery origins. The city rose to prominence due to its wealthy seafaring merchants, and most iconic images of the town inevitably include a canal vista complete with gondolier, happily serenading ...Galley Gossip: Ask a flight attendant - Positano, Italy
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Aug 15th, 2008 at 3:30PM:
While on a flight to Stansted, England, on our way to Venice, the New York based international flight attendant working on my side of the cabin eyed the book, Frommer's Italy 2008, in my hands as she poured a little cream into my coffee. "Are you going to Italy?"
"We are," I said, nodding my head at the husband who was asleep beside me. When she placed the cup of coffee on my tray table, I ...Galley Gossip: Flight attendant vacation - Venice (Cannaregio)
Jul 1st, 2008 at 12:00PM: You've thought about going to Venice. Come on, admit it. Don't deny it. Of course you immediately talked yourself out of it, considering you absolutely detest crowds and tourist traps. Yet Venice, you must admit, does look magical, like the kind of tourist trap you should see at least once in your life. But the problem is you can't stand crowds and tourist traps. And that's a problem. A very big ...Man arrested for snapping women's bottoms in Venice
May 13th, 2008 at 2:00PM: Venice has been ultra-progressive lately, especially when it comes to quality of life issues. Not only did they finally prohibit pigeon-feeding, but they have also just caught the mysterious serial female butt snapper, who has been walking behind women in Venice in a hooded shirt, taking photos through a small hole in the side of the bag.
He doesn't seem like your typical bottom snapper, mind ...The tradition of pigeon feeding in Venice's St. Mark's Square is over
May 9th, 2008 at 2:00PM: It is now illegal to feed the pigeons in Venice's St. Mark's Square, or anywhere else in the city for that matter. Venice's avian crackdown, which went into effect on Wednesday, joins the likes of London's and New York's, where it's been against the law to feed pigeons for some time now. But it's difficult to name a city that has a closer connection with the "winged rat" than Venice: Who hasn't ...Planning your European nightlife
Apr 21st, 2008 at 1:00PM: Despite the low dollar, some of us still have European summer adventures on the horizon. And just because the economy is in a rut, doesn't mean we shouldn't focus on fabulous things to do across the Atlantic. This weekend, the New York Times put together a set of 10 articles on things to do after midnight in various European cities. I tend to like the New York Times Travel section, but I really ...Discount for "poor" Americans at Venice bar
Apr 8th, 2008 at 12:00PM: The dollar might be low, but if you make your way to Venice you can count on a discount from Harry's Bar, the renowned Venetian watering hole said to be the birthplace of the Bellini and Carpaccio, and where Ernest Hemingway himself downed martinis. Offering a discount to "poor" Americans who are suffering from the weak dollar is representative of a growing concern across Europe that a decrease in ...Byzantine style mosaic making: Bring out the artist within
Mar 16th, 2008 at 9:30AM: Not long ago, I posted about how you could learn how to make your very own Mozart Balls in Salzburg. That was a bring out the cook in you endeavor. Making tile mosaics in Venice is a way to bring out the artist within and enhance an Italian vacation.
The Orsoni Glass Foundry in Venice has been making glass smalti and 24K mosaic tiles since 1880. More than 100 years later the foundry's great ...Where on Earth? Week 40: Venice, Italy
Jan 11th, 2008 at 4:30PM:
Congrats to Bubba for correctly guessing the train station above as Santa Lucia in Venice, Italy. I'm consistently amazed that our readers can guess these so quickly! (A hat tip to Ben, too, for narrowing it down to Italy.) I had this very scene burned into my memory this past October as I waited four hours for an overnighter to Budapest. Nearly 10 border stops (one going in each country, and ...
