Please Forgive the Pun :)

The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.  Joined by Yakuzza and Santo.

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Yakuzza Lethecus: good morning riddle
Riddle Sideways: Hello
Riddle Sideways: Yak, your mic is still on
Riddle Sideways: unless you were going to talk?
Riddle Sideways: Are you still in Venice
Yakuzza Lethecus: no, bit strange why the laptop activates the voice, didn´t press the talkbutton
Yakuzza Lethecus: no, sadly not any longer, left venice last afternoon
Riddle Sideways: am sure you had a good time

Yakuzza Lethecus: it was really comfortably warm and a lot of positive impressions to let settle
Riddle Sideways: ah, let that process

     There is a large 3 tier cake with large candles in the pavillion
Riddle Sideways: aph left the cake behind :)
     Seems there was one in Venice too
Yakuzza Lethecus: oh no, i hope they eate a bit more of it
Yakuzza Lethecus: before they left it
Riddle Sideways: ha, the one here in the pavillion
Yakuzza Lethecus: we eate about 2/5 of it yesterday morning
Yakuzza Lethecus: oh
Riddle Sideways: now we know you had cake for breakfast
Yakuzza Lethecus: lol, we had a little cake yesterday morning :)
     How many remember the Bill Cosby routine about Cake for the kids for breakfast?
Yakuzza Lethecus: we had dinner out on sunday and were too full to have it as desert, but well didn´t realize that you talked about aph´s virtual since there was a rl one and she left early this morning

Riddle Sideways: sounds like you had too much fun
Yakuzza Lethecus: the worst experience was that aph´s wallet got stolen
Riddle Sideways: oh dear
Yakuzza Lethecus: good morning san
Riddle Sideways: Hi San
Santoshima Resident: zzzz ~ good morning :)
Riddle Sideways: trying to enjoy virtual Venice
Santoshima Resident: nice,
Santoshima Resident: how's that going?
Santoshima Resident: vino?

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Riddle Sideways: if ppl tell lots of stories, it's almost like
Riddle Sideways: Being There
Santoshima Resident: are you still in Venice, Yaku?
Yakuzza Lethecus: no, i left venice yesterday
Santoshima Resident: how was your trip?
Yakuzza Lethecus: i really liked it, only downside was that aph´s wallet got stolen

Riddle Sideways: was your trip back train or plane?
Yakuzza Lethecus: we flew back
Yakuzza Lethecus: bus from piazzale roma to treviso
Yakuzza Lethecus: and from there to skavsta in sweden
Yakuzza Lethecus: everything worked out without any trouble,

Santoshima Resident: what do you think of when you think of Venice?
Santoshima Resident: either of you
Riddle Sideways: good, air travel is slightly difficult lately
Yakuzza Lethecus: there are two sides to venice, the actual venice and the layer where the history of the city comes into it
Yakuzza Lethecus: of course the history and the city itself are amazing
Yakuzza Lethecus: so was the biennale at the arsenale

Yakuzza Lethecus: reality and contemporary issues are of course all the ppl trying to sell false handbags and forcing to get attention by halfly blocking bridges and alike
Yakuzza Lethecus: aph´s wallet stolen
Santoshima Resident: oh, sorry for Aph ~
Yakuzza Lethecus: shows social issues with north african refugees who might not be able to make money otherwise
Yakuzza Lethecus: that´s a refference to the handbags, don´t know where and who´s related to the wallet tho
Santoshima Resident: street vendors

Santoshima Resident: did you see the biennale? (I don't know when that happens)
Yakuzza Lethecus: at least the architectural part, we havent seen the gardens (evelyn and me)
Santoshima Resident: hmmm
Yakuzza Lethecus: wol had some tickets for the architectural part over
Santoshima Resident: very nice
Yakuzza Lethecus: yes, thought so too, great installations

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Yakuzza Lethecus: the only experience i really missed was that i haven´t been on any boat since eve isn´t fond of boats :)
Riddle Sideways: venice without a boat ride?
Santoshima Resident: bridges
Yakuzza Lethecus: wol and aph did of course
Santoshima Resident: night boats? or just day
Yakuzza Lethecus: there are also night boats running in venice, havne´t been on a boat day or night
Santoshima Resident: you walked?

Santoshima Resident: (we are very eager to know about your transportation means ! lol)
Yakuzza Lethecus: sure, it´s even equally fast, only if ur on the other side of the grand canal and want over then it sucks of course
Riddle Sideways: yes, seems most interesting
Santoshima Resident: what did you see that intriged you?
Santoshima Resident: u
Riddle Sideways: Aph? or Wol? hehehehe
Santoshima Resident: hehe
Yakuzza Lethecus: sure standing on the place with the doge´s palace which alomost everyone has seen from pictures and or movies
Santoshima Resident: wow
Yakuzza Lethecus: live music in front of cafe florian
Yakuzza Lethecus: we just passed that cafe

Yakuzza Lethecus: aph and wol have seen much more of venice
Yakuzza Lethecus: and they have more cultural experiences and see a lot more detail i would never recognize
Riddle Sideways: eye of the artist
Santoshima Resident: so have many Venetians! it's great to hear about your experiences
Riddle Sideways: so nice to live travels via others
Yakuzza Lethecus: riddle, have you been travelling lately ?
Santoshima Resident: kinda fun
Riddle Sideways: yep

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Riddle Sideways: like going on a trip and never leaving your viewer (twist on old saying)
Riddle Sideways: seeing (exploring) with Google Earth was fun too
Riddle Sideways: where ya'll were
Riddle Sideways: is there going to be a summary/review/commentary session on Venice?
Yakuzza Lethecus: i don´t know
Riddle Sideways: of course the hightlite would be meeting Aph :)
Riddle Sideways: and having met the RL Santo
Riddle Sideways: saving the meeting of RL Yaku for special time
Riddle Sideways: wait, isn't every time special
Santoshima Resident: i better go ~ good to see you both ~ thanks for the tour of Venice, Yaku!
Yakuzza Lethecus: i will also leave for today, see you two soon
Santoshima Resident: ciao
Riddle Sideways: thank you both