Well we're in Venice, a beautiful city of canals. You may have heard of it. They call their biggest, or main canal, the "Grand" Canal. It's quite nice, impressive even, but I don't think I'd go so far as to call it the Grand Canal. To me, the grandest canal of all is the birth canal. Think about it - what's grander than that? So frankly, I think it's a little presumptuous of Venetians to refer to their canal that way. But I'm a visitor and I didn't want to make a big stink of it. But I did think my point was interesting and valid enough to share with others that we're on our gondola ride. Now many of them didn't speak English, so to communicate my point I spoke very slowly and loudly, I exaggerated the way I enunciated my words, and I used many hand gestures to show what I was trying to get across. But judging from the silence and odd looks my efforts were received with, my gondola seat mates must have been a little slow. A lot of effort on my part went for naught.
Ciao.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment