“Venice is glamorous, until the breeze off the Adriatic brings in the smell of rotting fish and raw sewage, at which point it is like Hoboken with better architecture.”
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—Manolo the Shoeblogger, as quoted by Virginia Postrel in her new article, “The Glamour of Getting Away: No matter how unpleasant the real journeys, travel still has a way of seducing us.”
For my interview with Virginia on her recent book, The Power of Glamour, click here.
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