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RE: http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/07-08/the-lighter-sid...i-venice-europe.html

The map you had with you might help!! Comments please.

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On the map, Venice looks like a large island, divided by the reverse S-shaped Grand Canal. Hold both of your hands, backs of the hands up, fingers slightly bent. Interleave the hands, not touching, with fingers of the right hand on top, left hand fingers between right fingers and thumb, right thumb is between left fingers and thumb.

That reverse “S” space between the fingers and thumbs is the Grand Canal. Piazzale Roma is at the knuckles of the left hand. St. Mark’s at the base of the right thumb, the Rialto Bridge at the end of the fingers on the left hand. Scalzi Bridge is between the tip of the right fingers and the back of the left fingers, and Accademia Bridge from the tip of the right thumb across the Grand Canal to the left thumb.

The beautiful church called Santa Maria della Salute (Our Lady of Health), is right at the tip of the left thumb. Your map of Venice really works. McDonald’s is near St. Mark’s, Häagen-Dazs is near the Accademia Bridge.
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At http://www.travel-tidbits.com/tidbits/cat_italy.shtml you will find 128 pages of stories and photos of Italy.