As you cruise down the Grand Canal, Venice's main” street,” in a vaporetto or water taxi, you'll pass under the Rialto Bridge, a famous Venetian landmark.
The men who make it are craftsmen: the millwright, the watchmaker, the canal builder, the blacksmith.What makes the Industrial Revolution so peculiarly English is that it is rooted in the countryside.
My friend explains that troublemaking party animals see how many people can stand on the deck of an unfortunate boat and eventually they submerge it -- the canal equivalent of rolling over a car.