Touring the Venice canals by kayak

News icon News posting on June 07, 2008 | Related to Kayak

VENICE, Italy | They helped fleeing Romans evade Attila the Hun and held a glittering city aloft for more than 1,500 years. But the wooden pilings rising out of the Grand Canal in Venice are so decayed that as we clung to them one afternoon it wasn’t at all clear whether they would be sturdy enough to prevent us from capsizing into its murky waters.

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Source: The Kansas City Star