Hi, everyone! I’m currently in Venice, and tomorrow we’re off to Florence and then Rome. We’re having a grand old time, and while we were at the museum shop for the Peggy Guggenheim collection, I found this glorious piece of work:
It’s a book of walking tours of Venice by Hugo Pratt, with references to adventures of Corto Maltese. Here’s a random page:
I just had to get it, even though I won’t have time to do any of the walking tours and I doubt if I’m coming back to Venice any time soon. But how cool is this thing? The answer: very.
That’s all for now! Toodle-pip and all that! I’m going to be searching for comic book stores, so maybe I’ll have an update in the not-too-future!
A very cool book indeed.
Good luck with the comic store search and all the other places you’ll visit.
My main advice for Venice is to find the main train station…then cross to the other side of the canal, and stay there!
Why, what’s wrong with the other side?
Is it a shit hole. Don’t leave us hanging.
The area around Santa Lucia is SO touristy, haha!
After I visited the Normandy D-Day location with my sister some years back (she was working in Europe at the time) I commented that “This would seem really touristy if I didn’t live in the Florida Panhandle.”
Carlos: I mean, we did that, but technically the train station is on the same side of the Grand Canal as St. Mark’s, so we had to cross back over!!!! 🙂