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The Canals

4/12/2016

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...Continued from yesterday:

     After we'd seen the sights at Venice Beach,
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... I suggested a stroll around the canals.
     I love the Venice canals.
  

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  The Venice, California canals, that is,
...as opposed to the Venice Italy, canals,  which I find kind of creepy.
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     In fact I've been to Venice, Italy twice and both times I found the whole city kind of creepy.  I don't know, too much water, or something.  I kind of felt like I was stuck out in the middle of the ocean, which I guess I actually was.  And then I read this scary novel called "Vaporetto 13"  set in Venice which really creeped me out, as did the movie "Don't Look Now", another spine-chiller set in Venice.  And then there's "Death In Venice", where, well, the guy dies in Venice (no spoiler, it's in the title, right?), and a sci-fi short story version of that classic I once read called "Old, Old Death In New, New Venice",  which also didn't give me a good feeling about the place.
     Anyway, I'm not a huge fan of Venice, Italy.  Maybe it's because I never learned to swim.
    On the other hand, I did like the canals in Amsterdam,

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.....which seemed smaller and cuter and safer than the ones in Venice,
     However my far-and-away favorite canal city is warm, sunny Venice, California,
..with its light cerulean blue skies and palm trees,
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...colorful West Coast flora and fauna,
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...and story book houses.
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      Mayhaps whoever said, "See Venice and die" was talking about this place.
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