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Lorenzo Quinn, sculptor

Posted on February 16, 2019 by Janet Simmonds

Reading time 12 minutes

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The smallest library in Italy

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Janet Simmonds

Reading time 6 minutes

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The Palladian Villas of the Veneto, Italy – Country houses by architect Andrea Palladio

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Janet Simmonds

Reading time 21 minutes

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The best chocolate in Italy

Posted on November 28, 2018 by Janet Simmonds

Reading time 6 minutes

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Never send money home!!

Posted on October 7, 2018 by Janet Simmonds

Reading time 10 minutes

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Venice – respect, honour, enjoy!

Posted on September 4, 2018 by Janet Simmonds

Reading time 21 minutes

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Venice to Ravenna on the old Roman road

Posted on August 8, 2018 by Janet Simmonds

Reading time 11 minutes

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Canaletto and Venice

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Janet Simmonds

Reading time 13 minutes

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A true ‘welcome’ in the Veneto, Italy

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Janet Simmonds

Reading time 16 minutes

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Southern Italy Tour – 2019

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Janet Simmonds

Reading time 10 minutes

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Janet Simmonds (nee Panagakis) is a British-born tour guide, writer and company director. Born in Liverpool with a slightly Greek grand-father and a very Greek great grand-father she has a special affinity with the Mediterranean, especially Italy and Greece. Trained as a Geographer and Art Historian at the Universities of Oxford and Manchester, Janet has spent most of her adult life running specialist travel companies and travelling extensively. Several times a year she leads small groups to different parts of the Mediterranean. She writes about her travels and observations.

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Maps, maps, maps, they help us to understand the formation of the Venetian Lagoon. At the end of the last Ice Age, huge rivers of melt water poured south from the Alps towards the Adriatic Sea. As the gradient lessened the rivers dumped their loads, creating mud flats and vast watery estuaries. You could call them deltas - just like the Nile or the Mississippi. This is how the lagoon of Venice was formed. The lagoon offered a vast, safe harbour, an anchorage for boats. Venice developed as a fishing village, boat building centre and vast natural, harbour. Trade developed. Venetians built and supplied boats - to themselves and their neighbours. They rented out their fleet and in return they took control of trade routes. By the 15th century they controlled trade route and territory in much of the eastern Mediterranean. The lagoon was the Venetian protector.

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