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Thursday’s essay is the tenth and final one in the ten-part series about our Mediterranean cruise. It is entitled, “Venice, Italy - A city of fantasy, freedom, joy, and pleasure.”

1. “Cruising is incredibly self-indulgent” (06-04-09)
2. “Barcelona and the French Riviera (Nice and Eze): Minds Stretched in New Directions” (06-11-09)
3. “Livorno, Civitavecchia, and Tuscania: So much history it boggles the mind” (06-18-09)
4. “The Sistine Chapel, Saint Peter’s, and the Colosseum - Our tour of Rome” (06-25-09)
5. “The Port of Napoli - Our tour of Pompei and our warning about Naples” (07-02-09)
6. “Piraeus & Athens: Learning so much, and yet so much to learn” (07-16-09)
7. “Istanbul, Turkey: A city that demands a return - Essay I” (07-16-09)
8. “Istanbul, Turkey: A city that demands a return - Essay II” (07-23-09)
9. “Mykonos & Santorini: Nothing you could expect or imagine! (07-30-09)

Each of the essays offers a little history, our experiences on the excursions, as well as additional insights and observations.

This week we have a surprise bonus for those of you who have followed our Mediterranean excursions. Under the icon “Travel” on the andthensomeworks.com website, we have an additional essay entitled, “World Geography and then some!,” which is really an eleventh essay about our Mediterranean cruise. For those of you who know your geography, you'll LOVE this essay.

The series will cover additional cruise stops in Santorini and Mikanos (Greece), as well as Venice. The essays will offer a little history, our experiences on the excursions, as well as additional insights and observations.

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Thursday's And Then Some Essay preview
Venice, Italy - A city of fantasy, freedom, joy, and pleasure
by Richard L. Weaver II

Excerpt:

Most Venetians travel by motorized waterbuses (“vaporetti”) which ply regular routes along the major canals and between the islands. There are many private boats, but the classical Venetian boat, the gondola, is now mostly used for tourists, weddings, funerals, and other ceremonies. The price of a gondola ride was published in our Celebrity Today, a daily newspaper published by our cruise line and placed on our beds by our room attendant every evening when the beds are turned down. According to the newspaper, a ride costs $80 euros for one-half hour which is about $120 dollars. If you want a singer as well, you must be willing to pay about double that cost for the same amount of time.

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