The BITWRATHPLOOB hits Venice
erik posted in Detours on July 27th, 2007
The BITWRATHPLOOB’s stay with us coincided with a visit from family who had never seen the wonders of La Serenissima, so we took him along on a grand tour of the city of canals. A photo-essay seemed in order.
We drove the BITWRATHPLOOB across the Italian border at Rožna Dolina and got on the train at Gorizia Centrale. If you want to keep people away, the BITWRATHPLOOB is as good a charm against humans as any I’ve traveled with.
Please do not throw BITWRATHPLOOBs out of the window
Arriving in Venice, we hopped on the vaporetto and wound our way to Piazza San Marco, where we immediately lay down in the pigeon excrement to photograph the BITWRATHPLOOB with the lagoon behind him, in the canonical situation:
Next we paused between the prison and the Doges’ Palace to snap a picture of the BITWRATHPLOOB with the famous Bridge of Sighs at his back. It was at this point that he very, VERY nearly fell into the canal. It was a bit breezy there on the waterfront.
The BITWRATHPLOOB teeters on the brink of disaster
Continuing along the Riva degli Schiavoni, we reached the Adriatic’s foyer, the Piazzetta di San Marco, and posed the BITWRATHPLOOB with the campanile as his backdrop:
Napoleon’s “grandest drawing room in all of Europe” decorated with some Danish kitsch
We had hoped to take him up the campanile so that he might enjoy the view out to the Adriatic, but the line was too long and tempers too short. Instead we opted for a long boat ride out to the Lido, the sliver of sand that separates Venice’s lagoon from the sea.
BITWRATHPLOOB with Venice at his back
Finally it was time to board the vaporetto that would whisk us back to the train station, leaving the BITWRATHPLOOB’s tour of Venice just the first of many such excursions. Buon viaggio, BITWRATHPLOOB, buon viaggio!
Surely not the last time he’ll travel by boat…
July 24th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Y’all are having WAY too much fun with this.
July 24th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Love it. Hee-hee.
July 26th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Speaking of scary…Not that I’m not flattered….but how did I wind up as an administrator on the BITWRATHPLOOB Flickr group?
August 17th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Utterly terrifying.
I keep thinking that at some point I’m gonna have to jump on this BITWRATHPLOOB bandwagon, but for now I think I’m content to just sit back and take in the weirdness from afar.
When I was younger and being raised in a series of hippie communes there were two mascot rubber apes, Random and Edna, who had their own following and also traveled around the world. They’ve had their pictures taken in such places as New Zealand (where I was an exchange student) and Kenya. At some point perhaps R&E will cross paths with the remarkable BITWRATHPLOOB…