From Japan to SL

A gondola race was held at Venice as the last festival for the closing SIM, on a canal in front of the St, Marks Square. This is the place where I joined a gondola tour in RL Venice.




It was a time race with five boats at one time. Since the gondola was new someone was not able to set the direction.




This was a festival and there were many guests on a boat, but some boat was overloaded and sunk.




The gondola became a water barge and someone jumped up in a hurry. The gondolier stayed on board to the last feeling responsibility.




The course is to and from the fishers market on the canal through the Ponte di Rialto, on which there are many shops as RL. It was joy to walk from the St. Mark’s Square.




It should be easy if it were possible to set my camera on the boat, but I did not do so since it may affect the race. Fortunately it was not heavy on the day so I was flying camera freely. More pictures are coming in the next article.