7 days to go!!!

Useful things to know before our trip to Venice:

- Mosquito killer - tablet plug in (see picture).

- Eye- fi card - for connecting your camera with your smartphone and accessing your pictures.

- Website: www.jesolo.it

- Gabriele D'Annunzio (Italian pronunciation: [ɡabriˈɛːle danˈnuntsjo]; 12 March 1863 - 1 March 1938), Prince of Montenevoso, sometimes spelled d'Annunzio,[1] was an Italian writer, poet, journalist, playwright and soldier during World War I. He occupied a prominent place in Italian literature from 1889 to 1910 and after that political life from 1914 to 1924. He was often referred to under the epithets Il Vate ("the Poet")[2] or Il Profeta ("the Prophet").

D'Annunzio was associated with the Decadent movement in his literary works, which interplayed closely with French Symbolism and British Aestheticism. Such works represented a turn against the naturalism of the preceding romantics and was both sensuous and mystical. He came under the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche which would find outlets in his literary and later political contributions. His affairs with several women, including Eleonora Duse and Luisa Casati, received public attention.

During the First World War, perception of D'Annunzio in Italy would be transformed from literary figure into a national war hero. He was associated with the elite Arditi storm troops of the Italian Army and took part in actions such as the Flight over Vienna. As part of an Italian nationalist reaction against the Paris Peace Conference, he set up the short-lived Italian Regency of Carnaro in Fiume with himself as Duce. The constitution made "music" the fundamental principle of the state and was corporatist in nature.[3] Some of the ideas and aesthetics influenced Italian fascism and the style of Benito Mussolini.

- Numbers in Italian

1 uno 2 due 3 tre 4 quattro 5 cinque 6 sei 7 sette 8 otto 9 nove 10 dieci 11 undici 12 dodici 13 tredici 14 quattordici 15 quindici 16 sedici 17 diciasette 18 diciotto 19 diciannove 20 venti

21 ventiuno

22 ventidue

30 trenta 40 quaranta 50 cinquanta 60 sessanta 70 settanta 80 ottanta 90 novanta 100 cento

101 centouno

102 centodue

200 duecento 500 cinquecento 1000 mille 5000 cinquemila 10000 diecimila 50000 cinquantamila

- Cappuccini: Monks whose characteristic brown robes and peaked white hoods have lent their names tothe Italian coffee drink with hot milk: cappuccino

- Traghetto Ferry

- Etiquette When speaking to strangers, the third person is the polite form (lei instead of tu - you); using the second person is a sign of disrespect. It's worth remembering that Italians don't use "please" and "thank you" half as much as we do, it's all implied in the tone!