Saturday, February 1, 2014

Water Water Everywhere, This Afternoon & All Week + Vote for Blog Awards

Piazza San Marco this afternoon after the worst of the tide had receded
The flooding of Venice is typically rivaled by the flood of photographs documenting that flooding, many of them of a high quality I'd find difficult to match, so I won't belabor what you've probably already seen elsewhere. It's basically been a week of double-dip acqua alta: that is, not just acqua alta day after day, but, for the last four days, acqua alta twice per day.

Day after day of the scirocco, of rain, of high water. Photographers and/or many tourists tend to love the last of these, but shop owners really really don't. Tomorrow we'll get a break from the acqua alta: the forecast is for a height of 105 cm, which is still high enough to flood Piazza San Marco, but not nearly so bad as the 120 to 140 cm occurrences of recent days. But there seems to be no end in sight of the rain.

Meanwhile Italy Magazine is currently giving readers the chance to vote online for their 2013 Blogger Awards in a variety of different categories, such as "Best Italian Food Blog", "Best Italian Art & Culture Blog", "Best Italian Fashion & Design" blog and so on.

Venezia Blog is one of four finalists in "Best Living in Italy (Single Post)" category for a piece I wrote on my son Sandro and the practical beauty of handtrucks in Venice. You can read each of the four posts and vote for your favorite here:

http://www.italymagazine.com/blog-awards/2013?field_blog_category_tid=44501

A complete list of the other categories is at the right side of the above page and will give you the chance to check out the other finalists and vote. The last day to vote is February 8.

And I'm pleased to note that the process of casting a vote requires simply a single click of the mouse, with no additional fields to fill out or information to provide or commitment.

NOTE ADDED ON FEBRUARY 4: I just found out that a Venezia Blog post on a little wine shop in Cannaregio is among the finalists in the "Best Single Post Art & Culture" category. I feel rather silly not to have known this before and to add it now, but I'm flattered to be included in the running. 

http://www.italymagazine.com/blog-awards/2013?field_blog_category_tid=44504

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  1. The Italian WayFebruary 1, 2014 at 4:57 PM

    Vote ✔️Check

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  2. Capturing Venice/Capturing Paris February 2, 2014 at 4:24 AM

    Hi Sig. Nonoloso - well done on your nomination. I've voted for you - love reading your blog! Good luck!
    Karen from Capturing Venice

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    1. Steven Varni, aka Sig. NonlosoFebruary 4, 2014 at 12:33 PM

      Thank you very much, Karen. I'm really happy to have discovered your blog as well, and now, among the other excellent leads your blog has provided, I must figure out how to watch "Strip the City"!

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2014 at 5:40 AM

    I enjoyed your piece about Sandro and the handtrucks the most of anything I have ever read online. But the link to vote isn't working for me (in the UK.) ??

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    1. Steven Varni, aka Sig. NonlosoFebruary 4, 2014 at 12:34 PM

      I think I initially set up the link incorrectly, Anonymous, but then fixed it. Thanks for trying it and letting me know about the problem, and thank you very much for your very kind comment about the piece on the handtruck.

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  4. JohnFebruary 2, 2014 at 3:26 PM

    Your pals in Chicago are voting early and often.....

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    1. Steven Varni, aka Sig. NonlosoFebruary 4, 2014 at 12:23 PM

      Nobody does voting like Chicagoans, John! Or at least, they tend not to admit to it, even under oath. Thanks!

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  5. AlexFebruary 3, 2014 at 6:17 AM

    Done that...

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  6. JonathanFebruary 3, 2014 at 7:27 AM

    Have cast my vote - and will also be recommending Venezia Blog in the next edition of my Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto.

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    1. Steven Varni, aka Sig. NonlosoFebruary 4, 2014 at 12:42 PM

      That's really great news, Jonathan, thank you very much. When will the next edition by published?

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    2. JonathanFebruary 4, 2014 at 2:21 PM

      Very difficult to predict - as you may know, sales of guidebooks (especially guidebooks that do more than simply tally the 'sights') have plummeted in recent years, so publishers tend to make each edition last rather longer than the two years that used to be the customary life-span. But I'm hoping that an update of Venice & Veneto will be commissioned next year.

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    3. Steven Varni, aka Sig. NonlosoFebruary 11, 2014 at 5:11 AM

      I hadn't thought about how the ubiquity of tablets and smart phones and the like would have hugely cut into the sales of guidebooks, Jonathan, but I guess it should have been rather obvious to me. It's difficult to be a publisher (or writer) of pretty much any type of book these days, it seems.

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 3, 2014 at 1:44 PM

    Fatto!

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  8. JoAnnFebruary 8, 2014 at 2:19 PM

    fatto. in boca al lupo!

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  9. venezia aeroporto hotelFebruary 22, 2014 at 7:02 AM

    E 'qualcosa di insolito a Venezia, ma spero davvero che alcune soluzioni si troveranno presto, è un peccato vedere come questo incredibile centro culturale sta annegando.

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    1. Steven Varni, aka Sig. NonlosoFebruary 24, 2014 at 2:17 PM

      Qualche persone dicono che MOSE sarà la soluzione, altre persone dicono no. Speriamo che MOSE è una soluzione, ma presto...? Chissa?

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