Category: Travel
Phuket 2:17pm 88° everything is still good
Phuket 10am 88° all is good.
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That’s pronounced poo ket you stupid English speaker.
Live phone update from Hong Kong airport: “Confucius says ‘ Man who go through airport gate sideways going to …skkss[signal lost]
Plant #2 now underway, Wuhu, China
Mary’s second plant is ready to move equipment into and start making stuff. It is located in Wuhu, China. See a pictorial representation of what China might look like below.
The floors have been painted and ready to move in the machines. A picture like this in a couple months will look a lot different.
Mary posing with stuff
Of course when you go on a trip you take pictures posing in front of stuff. Here are some of those kind of pictures.
The Rialto Bridge
The Rialto bridge is the old main bridge across the Grand Canal in Venice. It was built 600 – 700 years ago and over the course of the 3 days we were there we crossed it many times. It is marked by big ol arrow thing on map below.
Here you have a view of the North side of the bridge as seen from a water taxi.
Here is a picture from the North side of the bridge looking North to where the previous picture was taken.
Here is from the other side of the bridge looking South.
Here is from the south side of the bridge looking down directly next to the bridge.
These are a few of the shops and stands on the bridge.
And finally here is the bridge from a gondola.
This bridge has been kind of a big deal in Venice for a few years.
I didn’t take this picture but I wanted to
But there was not the opportunity to see a blind person in Venice and yell out too all nearby
VENETIAN BLINDS
In Italy it’s worth 70%.
Whatever it is.
Venice, No lack of water here.
Although I didn’t have Americano Coffee I suspect it would have had water since Venice was flooded today. It is the season of Aqua Alta or high water and apparently today it was very high. When we got there at 10 it was near high tide and we had to buy boots to get around. Here is a couple of pictures, one blurry because with the rain I didn’t have my high speed stop action camera.
Live From Varase Italy
Sever Water Shortage Impacts Coffee Industry
We spent the evening walking the city center of Varase when it was decided that we should have some coffee and whatever they have for snacks. Didn’t want espresso or capachino so I ordered the great Americano coffee. Here is what I got.
Untouched, as delivered, Americano Coffee
The water shortage is so bad that only the coffee part of the coffee got delivered. All that was needed was a cup of boiling water.