Discovering Venice Venice in mid-January? Have I gone mad? I hope not. As a little boy, my first awareness of Venice, Italy was through the “reels” of a little View-Master projector. If you’re old enough you may have seen or remember this variation on a slide viewer – it was a curious-looking, boxy thing you pointed at a light source, then...
I’m Off! As usual for the trip from home to Toronto’s Pearson International, I booked an airport “limo” with Toronto Airport Limousine (TAL). I’ve used this company for many years and they’ve never let me down. TAL were scheduled to pick me up at 3:00PM, but the driver arrived early – as they normally do – and called me from downstairs at 2:50...
Home Time! Time to return home to our true north strong and free. One Last Venice Breakfast I had set an alarm on my phone for 8:00AM but awakened at 7:45, so I had time to linger in the luxurious King-sized bed for a short while longer. At 8:00 I got up, showered, then went down to the hotel’s Breakfast Room for one last awesome breakfast at the Hotel Saturnia &...
Well, my Venice trip is now well behind me and I’m left with so many wonderful memories. Venice was a bit of a learning experience for me, having never been. I’m glad everything turned out so well (not counting my experience in the hated Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, of course), and that I didn’t take a tumble down any stairs –...
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