Enjoying your fellow travellers

Many ‘characters’ in airport lounge

On a recent
Edmonton, I
“privilege” of spending a
couple of hours waiting
while the airline patched-up
a fuel line disfunction. When
you're by yourself, you get a
good opportunity to watch
the other passengers and
several were indeed “some-
thing to watch.”

I enjoyed the guy with a
matching set of luggage —
both a nifty shade of brown
(cardboard) held together
with assorted pieces of
string.

The mother with five kids
under five years of age won
my admiration. Despite two
that couldn't walk and three
that were faster than
speeding bullets, she smiled
serenely and stuffed botdes
in yowhng mouths, pro-
duced a few small toys and
generally kept her brood
happy.

The smaliest infant was
carried in a sling, the next
two were in a stroller, the
one-year old in the seat and
the two-year-old clinging to
the back on a sort of plat-
form and harness rig, the
oldest took charge of a
moderately-sized diaper bag
and held the hand of the
second. The whole family
seemed to thing that a long
wait in a hot, crowded
waiting room was a delight-
ful experience.

One businessman,
complete with a huge satchel
and one of those “hang-up”
suit bags was furious. He
consulted his watch every 30
seconds, berated the airline
personnel and finally left ina
huff.

An immaculately
uniformed Salvation Army
lady, grey hair tucked neatly
into her cap, read a
magazine. pausing every
now and again to glance at
the rest of us with a smile
hke a benediction.

flight to
had the

The old people were
patient, most of the families
with young kids coped, the
women tolerated the delay
but the businessman fretted,

travel-
_ wise

by Barbara
McCreadie

fussed and fidgeted. No
wonder so many young
executives are filling our
cardiac wards!

DEAR BARBARA: We are
going to Italy in September
to take a cruise departing
from Venice. Since we will
have a few days there before
the cruise ship leaves we
would like to know where
you stay when you're there.

Is it safe to walk around
the streets at night?

What is the cheapest way
to see the sights — a tour or
what? Any other advice?

ANSWER: My favorite hotel
in Venice 1s the Cavailetto
(P.O. Box 733, St Marco
1107, 30124 $62.50 double).
It is a short walk from the
Piazza St. Marco and lots of
reasonably pnced “Tavola

Cauldas” abound. They are
our equivalent of a short-
order-kitchen-cum-bar wh-
ere you can see the food
before you order. Some of
the specialities are superb,
such as any of the pasta
dishes, the sandwiches (if
you order “toast,” you'll get
a juicy grilled ham and
cheese), Osso Bucco — a
tasty stew, or any variety of
veal cutlets served with fried
potatoes. Veal piccatta is
veal with lemon.  Salti-
mbocca is veal with pro-
ccuitto ham. Veal Marsala is
veal with a pungent wine
sauce.

It is quite safe to walk at
night IF:

You leave most of your
money in the hotel safe:

You can keep your
bearings. Between eight and
mine, the shops close and
haul down steel doors over
their show windows. The
landmarks that you
recognized in the daytime
are suddenly obliterated and
nothing looks familiar.

The streets in Venice wind
all over the place. They are
narrow and there is no trans-
portation other than the
canal boats and your own
two feet.

Get a good map from the
hotel desk. Mark your
choices of sights to see and
mark your route to get there
(and back).

Organized tours are
mostly unnecessary and
expensive. Each public
building conducts it’s own
guided tour with your en-
trance fee and nearly every-
thing is a short walk from
your hotel. The vaporettos
(water buses) are cheap.
Don't be the fool | was and
buy a tour to Murano (the
island of glass blowing) The
tour cost about $6 while |
could have got there on my
own for tess than a dollar,
return.

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If you like pigeons, buy a
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Marco and you'll be mobbed
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beasties. They sit on your
arms, head or anything else
that’s handy.

No trip to Venice is
complete without a ride in a
gondola. Try and team up
with four or so other people
as the price’ doesn’t vary
much for a group as com-
pared to a couple. They seat
six and the price is roughly
$20.

The price of drinks in the
Piazza St. Marco is out-
rageous. For that matter,
liquor prices are dreadful
everywhere in Italy. If you
can aquire a _ taste for
espresso coffee, you can do
your people-watching
cheaply. The carafes of wine
are often pretty raw stuff —
my guess ts that they save the
junk for the tounsts.

Every member of my
family has their own special
favorite place in the world.
Bran itches to return to
Toremolinos (Spain).
Number one daughter yearns
for Kona, Hawaii while
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to return to Rio de Janiero.

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her heart to Venice. “Tell
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