European Reminiscences Musical And Otherwise Being the Recollections of the V
European Reminiscences Musical And Otherwise Being the Recollections of the V
Elson, Louis Charles, 1848-1920
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Before reaching the Queen of the Adriatic there was an en- counter with an Italian custom-house officer, whose chief efforts seemed to be devoted to preventing me from smug- gling six infamously bad cigars into Italy. I at first thought that this might have been in the interests of the sanitary condition of the smokers of Italy, but subsequent trials of Italian cigars convinced me that this was not the case. One plunges into the typical life of Venice at the outset, for you must take a gondola ...from the railway station to the hotel. The canals, of course, are at every threshhold, and an American en fan terrible who rushed out to play in the street, the morning after our arrival, was fished out of the water only after he had imbibed several quarts of it. At Venice I began to taste the sweets of hard earned re- pose. There is nothing so conducive to the dolce-far-niente feeling as lymg back in a gondola with one's feet on a cush- ion, one's head on another, and listening to the musical call of the gondoliers as they shoot through the narrow water lanes that branch out from the Grand Canal, (which is, by the way, about the only gondoliers' music in the city) .
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