Venice

So this is Venice” my mom said quite innocently as we faced the Scalzi Bridge in 1999. I envied her passion and the unrepenting excitement in her voice.

When I was a kid, my mom told me about a magical city where the streets were made of water. She said that one day when I was older, I would need to visit the fabled Venice before it slipped into the ocean and was lost for good. Venice was a modern-day Atlantis, to me, and I had precious little time to catch it before it was gone.

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Category: Pix

Mallorca Pix

Mi amor and I celebrated our two year anniversary by spending the 19-28th in Spain this past month. We started with a day in Barcelona (pronounced bar-thu-lo-na in Castillian Spanish), walking around the city to see Park Gueill, La Sagrada Familla (Commonly known as the “Gaudi Church”) and La Rambla (Barcelona’s tree-lined promenade that leads from the center of town south to the Olympic Center on Barcelona’s harbor).

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