When you picture Venice you imagine the Grand Canal, Rialto Bridge, gondolieri, the vaporetto, small side canals with little bridges over them, winding streets and alleyways, gorgeous venetian glass in shop windows, Piazzale San Marco, the cathedral, the Doge’s palace; and the tourists – sipping coffee, window shopping, promenading shoulder-to24 THE AUSTRALIAN ORIENTEER MARCH 2008
shoulder, stopping abruptly to look at something unexpected. You know the scene. Now picture nearly 3200 orienteers running over those bridges and down the little alleyways, across the squares and through the archways, pushing their way through those throngs of tourists. That was the scene last November 11th
