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Taxi in Venezia: Consorcio Motoscafi

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Restaurantes, Venetian

The consortium has an impeccable service: you put your pick up and arrival place and they quickly organize your transport around Venice.

Water Taxi Venice

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Restaurantes, Venetian

A water taxi service (small boats) which take the passengers from the airport and train stations to the beautiful Venice.

Money and Beauty in Renaissance Florence

Mónica Boixeda Florentine, Only-Be

In his admirable book ´My life on rooftops0, the Samoan writer Albert Hanover has a marginal and delicate memory, like the corner of a miniature, for the Philosophy teacher who fell into luck during his years of preparative studies for university. His name was Thomas and his physical attitude in class – he never stopped walking around the classroom while he was articulating a speech of prodigious clarity – rhymed unbeatably with the drawings that in his Greek book represented a pair of peripatetic philosophers, like agreeing with Nietzsche about how you think better when walking. On an occasion when Thomas seemed to be lost in a nostalgic delirium for an admirable past time, Hanover was moved to defy him with a question relative to the possible error of idealizing those times which had been socially unfair and if, wasn´t it more adequate to consider that in all historical times, different civilizations had behaved in a more or less monstrous way with large part of the human kind. Without leaving his melancholic air, Thomas sighed, in a way which On an occasion when Thomas seemed to be lost in a nostalgic delirium for an admirable past time, Hanover would later associate with Joseph Cotten during his unforgettable speech about the automobile in ´The Magnificent Ambersons´ by Orson Welles, and he accepted that it was very possible but that, however, he couldn´t stop feeling that in some places and times (the Athens of Pericles, the Florence of the Quatrocento…) what we call culture expressed a certain awareness of the artistic dimension and the existance of the aspiration to live life as... read more