the emotional blackmailers handbook

of the seven deadly sins, the eighth and worst by far is emotional blackmail ... the diligent practise of this subtle and ancient art creates a constantly evolving darwinistic moral vacuum in which the brightest new manipulative ideas and stratagems flourish ... and which only you, or i, can fill !

Friday, July 14, 2006

away from the steam bath of venice by train into the dolomites

stazione per l'alpago, an old station on the railway from venice to calazo de cadore

the terminus at calalzo de cadore

must be about seventy miles from venice ... the journey takes two and a half hours but cost only fifteen euros

at the house where titian was born

while we were in this house, in pieve de cadore, about three miles up the hill from calalzo, a young red haired woman was speaking to her re...

light and shade

in the window of a bar where divers meet

as poised as gondoliers

a distant view of salute from schiavoni

salute from an early waterbus

the interior of salute ... too grand to photograph adequately

white

black masks

even if it isn't the smartest hotel in town ...

... as long as the towels are comfy ...

... and our room has a brilliant view ...

... and the window ledge fits my bum very nicely

the fishmonger's balcony

the gate to the arsenale

there's a bar/restaurant by the gate and this is the view from the corner table they do a lemon sorbet in the shell of a lemon with a lu...

an early arrival in the bascino

vices ? in venice ?

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tristan: Tenby, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom; you were only supposed to eat the cake, john ... not the flipping candles !

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