Friday, 25 July 2008
VENICE - The pigeons are hungry. They march single-mindedly, beaks thrust forward, across the stones of St. Mark's Square, dive-bombing at the first hint of a piece of bread or a chip. Soot-gray, with spindly coral-colored legs and claws, many just pace, pecking at stone in the hopes it will yield a crumb. This fabled city's plan to starve away the pigeons seems to be working - unless Venetian pirates come to the rescue. A band of animal lovers armed with skull-and-crossbones flags zips over the choppy Venice lagoon in speedboats. They dock at the palace-lined piazza, lug out 20-pound sacks of...
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Synagogue fights for survival on Venice Beach in Los Angeles
International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune
: The only synagogue on the Venice Beach boardwalk has weathered 80 years' worth of oscillating economies, winos, shamans and aggressive panhandlers, disintegration of its own...
Hotel plunge choirgirl cheats death after bouncing off canvas canopy on school trip to Venice
London Evening Standard
London Evening Standard
Horror as 16-year-old girl plunges 30ft from hotel window on Venice school trip
London Evening Standard
London Evening Standard
British teen in horrifying 30ft plunge from hotel window in Venice during school trip
London Evening Standard
London Evening Standard
Venice with children
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
Pamela Goodman Last Updated: 5:59PM BST 18/07/2008 If you want to whet young appetites rather than give them cultural indigestion, your visit to La Serenissima needs careful...
