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Welcome to Pictorial Venice--
a multimedia tribute to the awesome and mind-expanding time I had in the summer of 2004, when I spent six weeks studying abroad in Venice, Italy.
About the Site…
This site was designed to make some of my travel experiences available for others to share. If you have never been abroad, if you are considering studying in a foreign country, or if you just enjoy travel stories, then the sights and sounds on this webpage might be worthwhile for you. During my six weeks in Venice, I had more mishaps, epiphanies, and adventures than I could count: this website is a multimedia scrapbook of those adventures. Each major city has its own page--you can discover them by using the menu on the top left.
A Little About Me…
When the program started, I had just finished my junior year at Duke University. When I realized that this final summer before graduation was my last chance to study abroad, I dashed off a last-minute application to the Duke-in-Venice program. Venice seemed like an apt destination for me: after all, I was majoring in Classics--Latin, ancient Greek, and the history of the civilizations that spoke them. Plus, all the pictures of Venice that I found online were gorgeous. I found that the city was also pretty in person--pretty, and much more!
The Multimedia Component
This site doubles as my Spring 2005 semester project for ISIS 140: Multimedia Communications. It was coded using HTML and CSS style sheets. Unless otherwise noted, the graphics are all my original work, edited in Adobe PhotoShop Elements; the photographs were taken in Italy with my digital camera. The audio files (that's my voice you hear) were created with an iPod and an iTalk microphone.
Happy trails…!
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Click this map of Italy to see the four main cities where I had my adventures. (Original image courtesy of www.atlas.com.) At first, never having traveled alone before, I wasn't sure how to get around in this new country. But it wasn't long before I found myself cruising Venice via vaporetto, kicking around Florence on foot, being crushed like a sardine in the Roman metro, and taking trains everywhere else. And trains, let me tell you, are fantastic. Because of their cheap fares, convenient stations, and frequent schedules, I could visit the four vastly different cities of Venice, Naples, Florence, and Rome as easily I could drive to Grandma’s back home. (Of course, it also helped that we had no classes on Fridays!)
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