Hey blogger fans! So you may have figured out that we are not in Holland anymore... Right! We're back in Canada! It's been about 4 months now. So that wraps that up.
BUT
Our recent trip to Disneyland was a blast!! Check back for photos!
Thursday, 29 November 2007
Sunday, 5 August 2007
More Holland
So these Dutch blog posts aren't really in any order...
This is Uncle John, Aunt Anika, and Aunt Rita:
A street and canal in Utrecht (a very cool city):
Look close, you can see Greg! We're having a beer in Utrecht, watching the people go by, mostly on all their bikes:
Here is the Dam that we visited (see last post):
This is Rita playing Musette in D for us! She practiced everyday since last time we were here so she could play for us!
This is Uncle John, Aunt Anika, and Aunt Rita:
A street and canal in Utrecht (a very cool city):
Look close, you can see Greg! We're having a beer in Utrecht, watching the people go by, mostly on all their bikes:
Here is the Dam that we visited (see last post):
Homeland: The Netherlands
We enjoyed ourselves so much on our last visit to the Netherlands that we thought we would make time in our trip to return and do it again!
It is great meeting family that you've never met before! Here are some pictures:
We had a dinner party last night! Mark and Margriet hosted and cooked a great meal. This is Leon (Husband of Monique; son-in-law of Rita) and Aunt Rita:
Here we have Mark on the right (son of Rita), Monique in the center (daughter of Rita), and Margriet on the left (Girlfriend of Mark):
Cleaning up after dinner:
Rita on the phone with Dad in Canada:
It is great meeting family that you've never met before! Here are some pictures:
This is Aunt Corine! We spent a day with her eating and drinking and seeing some small Dutch towns, as well as the largest section of reclaimed land in the Netherlands.
We had a dinner party last night! Mark and Margriet hosted and cooked a great meal. This is Leon (Husband of Monique; son-in-law of Rita) and Aunt Rita:
Here we have Mark on the right (son of Rita), Monique in the center (daughter of Rita), and Margriet on the left (Girlfriend of Mark):
Cleaning up after dinner:
Rita on the phone with Dad in Canada:
We've been having a great time checking out Holland. Two days ago, Margriet and Rita took us to The Waterland Neeltje Jans complex. It is a museum and park devoted to the massive dam project in south-western Holland. The dam is 3.2km long and consists of 62 huge moving doors to protect the low-lying sections of the Netherlands from flooding during bad weather and high tides. Very impressive!
Yesterday, Corine took us to see a poldar. A poldar is a large section of reclaimed land. We drove along a huge dike, on one side there was water, on the other was the reclaimed land. The water level was significantly higher than the level of the land on the other side of the road. Very cool to see.
Saturday, 28 July 2007
Germany
We left Switzerland and headed for Nurnberg. I had no idea what we were going there for, but Greg said it was home to some important WWII sights. I soon learned that Nurnberg was the city where the Nazis held their war rallies. We saw huge stadiums and parks, all of which was built and devoted to causing hype and excitement over Hitler and his power. I learned a ton of WWII history, and even enjoyed myself in the process!
From Nurnberg we went to Eisenach. Why would we go there? Well we wanted to visit the Wartburg Castle - the place where Martin Luther hid when he was excommunicated from the Catholic church. Not only did we see that, we also saw Luther's house AND the place of Johann Sebastian Bach's birth. Bach's birth house is a huge museum - tons of info from his life and music. They even had a section explaining polyphony, urtext scores, and more.
We made a quick stop in Dresden, especially to see the Frauenkirche. This was once a very old, Lutheran church until it got bombed during WWII. It sat in ruins for years until 1992 when the two decided to rebuild it. They used as many of the old stones in the building of the new church, each of which is visible on the exterior of the church. Next on the list of German cities was Leipzig. Yet another city of music. I went to Bach's house and to Mendelssohn's house. A highlight was visiting St. Thomas Church: Luther preached there, it turned Lutheran after that, then Bach came along and worked there for 27 years. It is quite a place of history and I enjoyed every moment.
We made another quick stop in Wittenberge, being the good Lutheran's that we are. The Luther museum was excellent - we enjoyed seeing Cranich paintings and woodcuts, and some of the original versions of Luther's German bible. We also saw the place where Luther burned his bull of excommunication. And, of course, we saw the castle church where Luther nailed his 95 thesis.
Now we are in Berlin. We have been here four days and have only scratched the surface of what can be seen here. War is a much more present, real topic in this city. You can easily see places where the destruction of war happened. The Berlin wall, although no longer physically here, continues to have a presence that effects the majority of the city. We've visited churches, synagogues, wall sights, museums, and monuments, all of which have been very good. I really enjoyed seeing the East Side Gallery: a section of the Berlin wall now under monument status because of the art that was painted on it shortly after the fall of the wall.
That is the quick German update. We eat allot of wurst, normally drink more than 2 liters of beer a day, and ride the Metro everywhere we go because the city is so big. Off to Hamburg tomorrow and then back to the Netherlands!
From Nurnberg we went to Eisenach. Why would we go there? Well we wanted to visit the Wartburg Castle - the place where Martin Luther hid when he was excommunicated from the Catholic church. Not only did we see that, we also saw Luther's house AND the place of Johann Sebastian Bach's birth. Bach's birth house is a huge museum - tons of info from his life and music. They even had a section explaining polyphony, urtext scores, and more.
We made a quick stop in Dresden, especially to see the Frauenkirche. This was once a very old, Lutheran church until it got bombed during WWII. It sat in ruins for years until 1992 when the two decided to rebuild it. They used as many of the old stones in the building of the new church, each of which is visible on the exterior of the church. Next on the list of German cities was Leipzig. Yet another city of music. I went to Bach's house and to Mendelssohn's house. A highlight was visiting St. Thomas Church: Luther preached there, it turned Lutheran after that, then Bach came along and worked there for 27 years. It is quite a place of history and I enjoyed every moment.
We made another quick stop in Wittenberge, being the good Lutheran's that we are. The Luther museum was excellent - we enjoyed seeing Cranich paintings and woodcuts, and some of the original versions of Luther's German bible. We also saw the place where Luther burned his bull of excommunication. And, of course, we saw the castle church where Luther nailed his 95 thesis.
Now we are in Berlin. We have been here four days and have only scratched the surface of what can be seen here. War is a much more present, real topic in this city. You can easily see places where the destruction of war happened. The Berlin wall, although no longer physically here, continues to have a presence that effects the majority of the city. We've visited churches, synagogues, wall sights, museums, and monuments, all of which have been very good. I really enjoyed seeing the East Side Gallery: a section of the Berlin wall now under monument status because of the art that was painted on it shortly after the fall of the wall.
That is the quick German update. We eat allot of wurst, normally drink more than 2 liters of beer a day, and ride the Metro everywhere we go because the city is so big. Off to Hamburg tomorrow and then back to the Netherlands!
Thursday, 19 July 2007
Swizterland!!!!!!!!
Hello everyone! and a special hey hey to our buddy Claudio from Winterthur, Switzerland!!
We arrived here on Monday and have been having a wild time. We are staying with a friend that we met in Calgary a year ago. He was coming through and couch surfing on another friends' couch when we met him. Now here we are visiting him!! Here he is BBQing us some food:
Between hanging out with Claudio and his great friends (and always drinking a few too many beer and getting rowdy) we have been able to take in some Swiss sights. This is the Rhine River Falls:
On a day trip to Zurich, we ran across Zwingli's church!! Zwingli was a reformer during Martin Luther's time. He was responsible for the reformation in Switzerland. This is the church that it all happened in:
Some Swiss Chalet's anyone?
A typical street in the old part of the city of Bern. We spent an afternoon here in the rain.
So between sight seeing and drinking beer, Claudio has been very hospitable and let us shower and eat and do laundry and catch up on email. He's also shown us how to party... We spent an impromptu night in St. Gallen when we had a good time with some friends and the city's fountains.
Tomorrow we are off to Germany to take in the many, many sights there. Thanks for reading everyone, and thanks for everything Claudio!!
We arrived here on Monday and have been having a wild time. We are staying with a friend that we met in Calgary a year ago. He was coming through and couch surfing on another friends' couch when we met him. Now here we are visiting him!! Here he is BBQing us some food:
Between hanging out with Claudio and his great friends (and always drinking a few too many beer and getting rowdy) we have been able to take in some Swiss sights. This is the Rhine River Falls:
On a day trip to Zurich, we ran across Zwingli's church!! Zwingli was a reformer during Martin Luther's time. He was responsible for the reformation in Switzerland. This is the church that it all happened in:
Some Swiss Chalet's anyone?
A typical street in the old part of the city of Bern. We spent an afternoon here in the rain. 
So between sight seeing and drinking beer, Claudio has been very hospitable and let us shower and eat and do laundry and catch up on email. He's also shown us how to party... We spent an impromptu night in St. Gallen when we had a good time with some friends and the city's fountains.
Tomorrow we are off to Germany to take in the many, many sights there. Thanks for reading everyone, and thanks for everything Claudio!!
Thursday, 12 July 2007
More pics...
The Fisherman's Bastion in Budapest, Hungary:
There were so many spiders on the Chain Bridge in Budapest:
This is the Turkish Bath we went to; this is one of about 20 different pools:
The Central Cemetary in Vienna; from left to right, Beethoven, Mozart (kinda), Schubert:
The famous ferris wheel in Vienna:
Picture Catch-Up
Remember to check our previous posts for more info on the following pictures...
This is one of 21 hill-top monasteries at Metora, Greece:
Yes, it is pink - a fountain in Bucerest, Romania:
Budapest, the Chain Bridge with the St. Something cathedral in the background:
Franz Liszt's house; this is his piano:
Budapest; the Royal Residence at night:
Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Vienna (Wien) Musicians
Here we are in the music homeland!! I've had a hayday looking at music stuff!!! So far, I've been to two of Beethoven's houses (not counting the one I went to in Bonn, Germany), Mozart's house and the Musikhaus. Coming up is Haydn's place, a little Brahms and perhaps Strauss if time permits. I'm also headed to the Central cemetary to make sure all these composers are dead.
Mozart shit is EVERYWHERE here. It is very touristy here - Mozart's face is all over everything: restaurants, hotels, stores, maps, etc etc. People dressed in the classical style litter the streets trying to sell whatever they're selling.
Soon we'll be off to Salzburg to see some more Mozart shit and then that is enough for me. I like his music better than I like where he lived it turns out.
Cheers.
Mozart shit is EVERYWHERE here. It is very touristy here - Mozart's face is all over everything: restaurants, hotels, stores, maps, etc etc. People dressed in the classical style litter the streets trying to sell whatever they're selling.
Soon we'll be off to Salzburg to see some more Mozart shit and then that is enough for me. I like his music better than I like where he lived it turns out.
Cheers.
Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary
Ahhh yes...
So we took a 20 hour train ride from Thesseloniki, Greece all the way through Bulgaria and arrived in Buceresti, Romania. We were greasy and tired so we crashed at the first hotel we could find and grabbed some food from the train station.
Buceresti was different than the other places we've been. It is by far the least touristed city we've been to. People there happily sit in the streets along with their own garbage. It was common to see piles of garbage and places where the sidewalk no longer exists. People sit on boxes, chairs, old couches, etc right in the street. We checked out the Village Museum which is like Heritage Park in Calgary, or Fort Edmonton only for Romania. We also saw some wild fountains, and the Romanian Parilment building (the second largest building in the world).
From Buceresti, we headed to Brasov, Romania. Here, we payed an old, ugly lady for two beds in her house. We like it quite a bit - she was nice after all. This was our home base for checking out some Transylvanian countryside and also Dracula's castle (actually, NOT dracula's castle, but the castle that was made famous by the story of Dracula). The real Dracula, named Vlad the Impaler, had a castle a little further out which is now ruined.
Onward to Budapest, Hungary!!! We loved this place! Here is what we saw:
- the Chain Bridge
- The Royal Residence
- Parliment building
- Buda Laberynth
- Buda Castle
- Buda Walls
- many, many churches - can't remember their names right now
- Fisherman's Batalian
- I saw the homes of Franz Liszt and Zoltan Kodaly while Greg saw the House of Terror (WWII)
- the main market
- we spent an afternoon at a Turkish Bath (sooooo cool)
- Heros' Square
- and many other things...
We like Budapest so much that we stayed an extra, unplanned day to fit everything in!!
So we took a 20 hour train ride from Thesseloniki, Greece all the way through Bulgaria and arrived in Buceresti, Romania. We were greasy and tired so we crashed at the first hotel we could find and grabbed some food from the train station.
Buceresti was different than the other places we've been. It is by far the least touristed city we've been to. People there happily sit in the streets along with their own garbage. It was common to see piles of garbage and places where the sidewalk no longer exists. People sit on boxes, chairs, old couches, etc right in the street. We checked out the Village Museum which is like Heritage Park in Calgary, or Fort Edmonton only for Romania. We also saw some wild fountains, and the Romanian Parilment building (the second largest building in the world).
From Buceresti, we headed to Brasov, Romania. Here, we payed an old, ugly lady for two beds in her house. We like it quite a bit - she was nice after all. This was our home base for checking out some Transylvanian countryside and also Dracula's castle (actually, NOT dracula's castle, but the castle that was made famous by the story of Dracula). The real Dracula, named Vlad the Impaler, had a castle a little further out which is now ruined.
Onward to Budapest, Hungary!!! We loved this place! Here is what we saw:
- the Chain Bridge
- The Royal Residence
- Parliment building
- Buda Laberynth
- Buda Castle
- Buda Walls
- many, many churches - can't remember their names right now
- Fisherman's Batalian
- I saw the homes of Franz Liszt and Zoltan Kodaly while Greg saw the House of Terror (WWII)
- the main market
- we spent an afternoon at a Turkish Bath (sooooo cool)
- Heros' Square
- and many other things...
We like Budapest so much that we stayed an extra, unplanned day to fit everything in!!
Tuesday, 3 July 2007
Athens Pictures
This is it - the Parthanon! Under restoration like most of the famous European sights however.......
This is the best preserved ancient temple in the world:
This is the temple of Olympian Zeus. It was one of the largest ever built:
The changing of the guard at the Greek Parliment:
This is Lykavitos (I kinda made that name up) Hill. We went up this sucker:
Capri and Pompeii Pictures
Here are some more pics. For more info, check our previous blog posts.
This is Pompeii - check out the volcano in the background, it is the one that covered the city:
This is one of the molds of a guy caught in the erruption of the volcano:
Greg jumping off the boat into the water at the island of Capri:
The island of Capri:
The grotto - that is light from outside the cave coming through the water:
Rome Pictures
Here are some pictures to catch you up with our previous posts...
The famous Colosseum (I really want to watch Gladiator again):
Some Roman ruins, some churchs, etc.:
The Michalangelo Room in the Vatican Museums; this painting has all the Bible big shots in it if you look closely:
The Sistine Chapel. Hopefully the security gaurds don't look at my blog otherwise I'm sure they'll leave a comment reminding me, "NO PHOTOS ALLOWED":
The pillars in the courtyard of St. Peter's Basillica at Vatican City:
Friday, 29 June 2007
Greece
Hey blog fans. It is been a while we know. We've been busy ya know. Lots to say so lets get started.
We left Rome for Sorrento, Italy. Sorrento is sort of like the Banff of Alberta - really touristy, but beautiful. Sorrento was our base for exploring the area.
Our first stop was Pompeii. Pompeii is (or was) an ancient city from more than 2000 years ago. The nearby volcano named Versuvius (no idea how to spell that) erupted in 64AD and covered the entire town in between 2 and 5 meters of volcanic ash. In the 1740s excavations began to uncover the town. Excavations have continued non-stop ever since. What we have been left with is one of the best preserved Roman cities in the world. We toured the excavated part of town - saw many houses, bakeries, temples, stores, and even fast-food joints. The town has two theatres, a few sports arenas, and a stadium. One of the highlights of the visits were the castings of real human bodies. People were caught off-gaurd by the volcano errupting and were thus burried alive. Their bodies decomposed in the ash leaving 'holes' where the bodies were. When excavations take place, the 'holes' are filled with plaster and allowed to dry, then when the ash is dug up, a perfect cast of the bodies is left behind. Some of the casts are haunting: you can see facial expressions and even the folds of the peoples clothes.
From Sorrento, we also took a cruise to the island of Capri and along the Almafi coastline. Highlights here included jumping off the top of our cruise ship into the emerald green and blue water on the coast of Capri. We sat in the sun on the top of the boat while the Almafi coastline went by, spent the afternoon in the town of Almafi. We took another boat to the Green Grotto. This is a dark cave full of water, but the light from an underwater passage illuminates the cave. Pretty cool, but maybe not worth the money it took to get there.
We made our way to Bari to catch a ferry to Greece. Our ferry ride was only 20Euro each, but that meant that all we had was a plastic lawn chair and a piece of floor for the 16 hour, overnight ferry. So we slept on the floor, with our bags as pillows. Arrived in Patras, Greece and caught a train to Athens.
Athens was fun - things are cheaper there. We saw the famous Parthenon and other Greek and Roman ruins. We climbed a few hills, took alot of pictures and took it easy. I went to the Greek Musical Instrument Museum while Greg took care of laundry!! Actually, we paid some guy to do it for us.
You may or may not have heard that there has been a heat wave in Greece. It is true. It has been around 44 degrees celcius. One day in Athens everything was closed due to heat. Heat waves are hot. It is like putting your face over the oven door when you open it. Normally wind cools you off, but this wind burned your skin. It was hot. But we are alive. Luckily we had AC in our Room in Athens.
Next Greek stop: Kalambaka/Metora. This is the home of the famous hill-top monastaries. There are 21, gravity defying monastaries perched on the tops of cliffs. They were built starting in the 11C, and 6 are still in use today. We toured Grand Metora Monastary. The highlight other than the incredible views was surely the ossuary. This is the room where the skulls of previous monks are kept on shelves. We did alot of climbing and hiking in the area, took a poop-load of pictures and got really hot and sweaty. The sight of monastaries on the tops of cliffs is quite nifty.
We are now in Thesenolika, Greece and we are departing tonight for Bucaresti, Romania. It is a 19 hour train trip through Bulgaria. Should be interesting.
Sorry no pics this time - this computer isn't cooperating, and the majority of our pics are in a locker at the train station anyways. Until Romania, that is the koop-scoop!!!
We left Rome for Sorrento, Italy. Sorrento is sort of like the Banff of Alberta - really touristy, but beautiful. Sorrento was our base for exploring the area.
Our first stop was Pompeii. Pompeii is (or was) an ancient city from more than 2000 years ago. The nearby volcano named Versuvius (no idea how to spell that) erupted in 64AD and covered the entire town in between 2 and 5 meters of volcanic ash. In the 1740s excavations began to uncover the town. Excavations have continued non-stop ever since. What we have been left with is one of the best preserved Roman cities in the world. We toured the excavated part of town - saw many houses, bakeries, temples, stores, and even fast-food joints. The town has two theatres, a few sports arenas, and a stadium. One of the highlights of the visits were the castings of real human bodies. People were caught off-gaurd by the volcano errupting and were thus burried alive. Their bodies decomposed in the ash leaving 'holes' where the bodies were. When excavations take place, the 'holes' are filled with plaster and allowed to dry, then when the ash is dug up, a perfect cast of the bodies is left behind. Some of the casts are haunting: you can see facial expressions and even the folds of the peoples clothes.
From Sorrento, we also took a cruise to the island of Capri and along the Almafi coastline. Highlights here included jumping off the top of our cruise ship into the emerald green and blue water on the coast of Capri. We sat in the sun on the top of the boat while the Almafi coastline went by, spent the afternoon in the town of Almafi. We took another boat to the Green Grotto. This is a dark cave full of water, but the light from an underwater passage illuminates the cave. Pretty cool, but maybe not worth the money it took to get there.
We made our way to Bari to catch a ferry to Greece. Our ferry ride was only 20Euro each, but that meant that all we had was a plastic lawn chair and a piece of floor for the 16 hour, overnight ferry. So we slept on the floor, with our bags as pillows. Arrived in Patras, Greece and caught a train to Athens.
Athens was fun - things are cheaper there. We saw the famous Parthenon and other Greek and Roman ruins. We climbed a few hills, took alot of pictures and took it easy. I went to the Greek Musical Instrument Museum while Greg took care of laundry!! Actually, we paid some guy to do it for us.
You may or may not have heard that there has been a heat wave in Greece. It is true. It has been around 44 degrees celcius. One day in Athens everything was closed due to heat. Heat waves are hot. It is like putting your face over the oven door when you open it. Normally wind cools you off, but this wind burned your skin. It was hot. But we are alive. Luckily we had AC in our Room in Athens.
Next Greek stop: Kalambaka/Metora. This is the home of the famous hill-top monastaries. There are 21, gravity defying monastaries perched on the tops of cliffs. They were built starting in the 11C, and 6 are still in use today. We toured Grand Metora Monastary. The highlight other than the incredible views was surely the ossuary. This is the room where the skulls of previous monks are kept on shelves. We did alot of climbing and hiking in the area, took a poop-load of pictures and got really hot and sweaty. The sight of monastaries on the tops of cliffs is quite nifty.
We are now in Thesenolika, Greece and we are departing tonight for Bucaresti, Romania. It is a 19 hour train trip through Bulgaria. Should be interesting.
Sorry no pics this time - this computer isn't cooperating, and the majority of our pics are in a locker at the train station anyways. Until Romania, that is the koop-scoop!!!
Wednesday, 20 June 2007
Roma!
We arrived in Rome on Sunday afternoon. While we were standing in the train station wondering where in the hell to go, a women came up to us and asked if we needed a hotel to stay in. She phoned a hotel and brought us to a place right by the train station free of charge!
We got settled in and started our sightseeing which included The Pantheon, Trevi Fountain, The Spanish Steps, and numerous churches.
On Tuesday we woke up at 7 so we could get to the Colessium before the massive wave of tourists. It paid off as there was no line when it opened. The Colessium is very cool, as was the Roman Forum which is all the ruins from ancient Rome. Palentine Hill is much of the same, and after a while you start to not even turn your head to take a look at buildings that have been there for 3000 years.... By 1pm Brad and I were so exhausted and hot that we had to take a Spanish Siesta (afternoon nap).
On Wednesday we were off to the Vatican. We thought we would be there at the same time as the Colessium, but 5000 other people had that idea as well. So we waited in the longest line I have ever seen for an hout and a half before finally getting into the Vatican Museums. At first I was quite annoyed with the museum, you literally couldn't move because of the crowds and the art was much of the same old things we saw numerous times earlier in our trip. It was all worth it however when we saw the Sistine Chapel. Other highlights included the modern religous art section and Raphael's rooms. We then made a quick visit to St. Peter's square and Basillica which had the tombs of St. Peter and Pope John Paul II.
Today we are off to Sorrento where we will do day trips to Pompeii and the island of Capri. From there it is on a boat to Greece!
We got settled in and started our sightseeing which included The Pantheon, Trevi Fountain, The Spanish Steps, and numerous churches.
On Tuesday we woke up at 7 so we could get to the Colessium before the massive wave of tourists. It paid off as there was no line when it opened. The Colessium is very cool, as was the Roman Forum which is all the ruins from ancient Rome. Palentine Hill is much of the same, and after a while you start to not even turn your head to take a look at buildings that have been there for 3000 years.... By 1pm Brad and I were so exhausted and hot that we had to take a Spanish Siesta (afternoon nap).
On Wednesday we were off to the Vatican. We thought we would be there at the same time as the Colessium, but 5000 other people had that idea as well. So we waited in the longest line I have ever seen for an hout and a half before finally getting into the Vatican Museums. At first I was quite annoyed with the museum, you literally couldn't move because of the crowds and the art was much of the same old things we saw numerous times earlier in our trip. It was all worth it however when we saw the Sistine Chapel. Other highlights included the modern religous art section and Raphael's rooms. We then made a quick visit to St. Peter's square and Basillica which had the tombs of St. Peter and Pope John Paul II.
Today we are off to Sorrento where we will do day trips to Pompeii and the island of Capri. From there it is on a boat to Greece!
Saturday, 16 June 2007
Venice!!
These people were everywhere so we had our picture taken with them:
The Grand Canal:
A Gondola:
San Marco church (the church that has a ton of music history - here is a piece: Giovani Gabrieli taught Heinrich Schutz composition here. The church has two facing choir lofts, and this had a big influence in the polychoral style of writing. I did a polychoral piece by Schutz two months ago at UofC)
This is the inside of St. Mark's (San Marco). It is covered in golden mosaic. The picture isn't great, but that is because pictures weren't allowed...
More Venice!!!
This is Greg is Venice:
This is some sort of palace that we walked to that was under construction:
This is the Ospedal della Pieta (for those of you who don't know what that is, it used to be a girls orphanage a few hundred years ago. Vivaldi spent the majority of his life working there and writing music for the orphan girls to perform for the public - it all happened here!!)
A canal in Venice:
One of the three bridges that cross the Grand Canal; this is the most famous one. There are shops and vendors all along this bridge, and many, many tourists.
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