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[lsanderson]

Journeys | Venice
On Venice’s Grand Canal in a Kayak

THEY helped fleeing Romans evade Attila the Hun and held a glittering city aloft for more than 1,500 years. But the wooden pilings rising out of the Grand Canal in Venice are so decayed that as we clung to them one afternoon it wasn’t at all clear whether they would be sturdy enough to prevent us from capsizing into its murky waters. More

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[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

It was the Lombards, not the Huns.

Picky, picky

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

He's a kid with a kayak, whatta expect, a historian? ;-)

New York Times -- no fact checking since the start o' the Bushies

Re: Picky, picky

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

There is some reason to think people might have temporarily fled onto the lagoon (which lacked the pilings to which he refers) when the Huns were around, but it didn't lead to anything. It's the flight from the Lombards that forged Venice.

I want a kayak!

Re: Picky, picky

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

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