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A place with balconies



  
I live here now - most of the year - with my wife, my books, my bikes and my three kids. Sorta 'Trantor', if you ask me, but I like it a lot. A disappearing kind of city, alas.
I also still visit regularly Venice, a city that I love (there are no cars) and that I hate (far too many italians - with a GSM screwed to their heads - and much too many tourists). Another disappearing kind of city, come to think of it, where you may often find me at the "Baccaro Do Mori" drinking my Refosco (the black "peduncolo" one, of course :-)