Virtual cruise from Venice along the river Po with the option to learn some Italian

Or play around with Google Earth - showing here San Marco and the Campanile

È quasi l’ora dell’aperitivo.?? Che cosa bevete ? Per me un Bellini.

Ciao Ixion.

Saluki
Saluti Lucca

ixion

Ecco?
I found these, but, granted, not as vibrant as those lovely yellow ones.

gb.ecco.com/en-GB/product/5643186607/ECCO-SOFT-7-W?_gl=1*1e1chl1*_up*MQ..

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Ecco = here
Eccomi = here I am
Eccoli = here they are

Etc

Grazie StarDreamer

Ecco?
I found these, but, granted, not as vibrant as those lovely yellow ones.

gb.ecco.com/en-GB/product/5643186607/ECCO-SOFT-7-W?_gl=1*1e1chl1*_up*MQ..

Lucca

Ecco

Grazie.

Hello Chewbacca and Hello MissAdventure.

This is how it works on a desktop computer.

I have not tried it on a mobile telephone, so this may depend whether someone using a mobile telephone cn do a mouse drag. So if it does not work please say.

First go to Google maps.

LINK > www.google.com/maps

Search for

Venice Italy

as there are other places called Venice.

You should get a map of Venice.

You may well get a map with Venice as tiny in the middle of the screen with the words

Saint Mark's Basilica

on the screen.

Over to lower right, there should be, arranged vertically, a + sign, a - sign, and a shape know as the "orange pegman" or sometimes just the "pegman".

To get into the street view pictures, one first needs to zoom in by clicking on the + sign. Do it slowly as many times as necesary until streets are diplayed.

Then one drags the orange pegman (that is mouse down, then drag, and when the dragging starts, there shouldlight up blue lines and possibly some blue circles superimposed on the map.

The blue lines are where somebody from Google has travelled with the special multilens camera, either in a car (generally, but not in Venice), or in a backpack, or on a barge, or on skis, whatever, with the camera system gathering an image from each lens every ten metres. Once one is "in" one can move along the street.

The blue circles are stand-alone 3d panoramas. Some sent in by members of the publc.

To get "in" one drags the orange pegman onto one of the blue lines or onto one of the blue circles and one then releases the mouse button. That mouse up event should result in being "in".

Please have a try to get "in" somewhere, anywhere, just to find out if that method works on the device that you are using.

If it does not work we can try to find out why and maybe get it to work.

I did bump into Francesco da Mosta once Lucca. Well not bumped into exactly I stood in the queue to get his book signed in Waterstones in Birmingham. He wasn't very friendly. Not exactly Venice, although I've been a few times .We have lots of canals though!

Ecco

MissAdventure

What's the vaporaetto?

Will we get vaporised?

The boat bus.

Joseanne

Oh yes, Io. Spiacente.

And…the pronoun isn’t always necessary, more for emphasis.
Sono una donna.

Lei è una ragazza, ma io sono una donna. She’s a girl but I am a woman.

What's the vaporaetto?

Will we get vaporised?

Make sure you get 3 day Vaporetto pass so you can hop on and off the vaporetti at will.

The Guggenheim is worth a visit. Personally I don’t
Like St Marks, too ornate. The island of Torcello is lovely with mosaics in the church and a fabulous restaurant. Last time I was there we went to the Jewish quarter. Fascinating.
If you’re lucky maybe you’ll bump into Francesco da Mosta!
I am hoping to get one more visit (real) to Venice

Sorry I’ll shut up now.

Actually just one more thing. I left Italy after four years in 1976. and returned to Venice about 16 years later. One evening walking down a random side street I heard someone speaking English and Italian…and .there was an Anglo/Italian couple with whom I had been very friendly when living in Milan!
Huge excitement and hugs..can you believe they were in fact only in Venice for that one evening.

Quick recap, please, for the confused (=me).
*The River Cruise will be coming to an end? Limited links, non-Argy, vegan? Yes?
* The Venice one, with DuoLingo classes, is starting soon? Is this Vegan/omnivore, Argy/non Argy, link free/in moderation/links welcome?

Is that it?
Thanks for the clarification- I should hate to enrol inappropriately.

Count me in, especially if we can call into one or two baccari per un'ombra following in the footsteps of Commissario Guido Brunetti (solving Venetian crime with wit and pure Italian style since 1992?)

Oh dear Joseanne nessun punto ( remember ? Nessun dorma ?)

Oh yes, Io. Spiacente.

Joseanne

Well I learnt "Lo sono una donna" today in the first lesson, which could be useful!?
Got horribly mixed up with lui, lei and il. Kept thinking in French.
??

Actually it is

Io sono

I was going to write

Io sono un uomo.

which in English is

I am a man.

And thinking that each of the ladies would write

Io sono una donna.

I am a woman.

The thing is that Italian, like French, has masculine nouns and feminine nouns.

However, when it comes to using "the", whereas in French the same word ("les") is used for both masculine plural and feminine plural, in Italian the same word is not used for both genders.

I am hoping that each person participating will write something, even if it is the same as what someone else has written.

I like the way that Duolingo uses the pictures to get people started.

I feel that that is very effective and confidence building.

I'd like to see Venice, too, please

I think I've got this right ...... shoes, not scarves
www.lunarshoesonline.co.uk/ladies-shoes-c6/st-ives-leather-plimsoll-p3419

Scarpe molto belle. Quanto?

Sorted.
Available in lots of colours.

I also checked out the webcam in Venice to see what kind of attire might be best to swan around in. Flat shoes in order.