At a fancy party in Venice, she found herself talking to a titled Italian in a gondola.

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But nonetheless the experience of riding in a gondola on a Venetian canal is so magical and unique to this spot that it simply cannot be skipped.

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For instance, I believe he's truly unnerved by riding in a gondola when the band hits Venice, but his sweating and grimacing come close to outright mugging for the camera.

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The country house was in a town near the Piave River, a trip the doctor could make in three days, by crossing the lagoon by gondola to Portegrandi and then continuing in a carriage.

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It is linked to the Town of Telluride by a gondola unique in all of skiing, owned by the community of Mountain Village and operated as public transportation.

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In 1998, an American fighter jet clipped a ski lift cable sending a gondola of 20 passengers to their death in the Italian Dolomite mountain range.

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Schweitzer was the navigator during an accident in which a E-A Prowler jet sliced a a ski cable gondola after taking off from the Aviano NATO air base.

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Alternatively, take a short gondola or ferry ride from the boat stations in front of the Palazzo Ducale, next to Piazza San Marco, to the Hotel Cipriani on Isola Della Guidecca.

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