Venetian Style Gondolas Come To Puerto Madero

[estebandepraga]

I think the last time you could go on a little boat across the infested Riachuelo was when Onasis was still rowing!

 

[RodalfoWalsh]

At Peru Beach you can actually see turds floating by.

Not just floating by but actually ordering fernet and coke at the bar

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Rather than clean the Riachuelo, it might be more appropriate and productive to refine it.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Not just floating by but actually ordering fernet and coke at the bar

Directly consuming urine?

 

[Matt84]

Venetian style Gondolas come to Puerto Madero, Does anybody know how much they charge ???

I actually talked to the manager a week before they opened and he told me around 100USD during the sunset and less during the hot afternoon, but that was back in March. The point I got was that he wouldn't have too much issue negotiating a better price if there're idle "gondolas". He also informed me that they had to actually pay a license to the City of Venice to operate these electrically-propelled fiber-glass loosely-gondola-shaped swan boats.

It's actually nice to see the city from the water without touching said water.

I used to go rowing every day down there. I would NOT want to fall into that water. Dead fish floating belly up, trash and unseen from above, millions and millions of used condoms. Did you know that if you throw a condom in a body of water that has even the slightest current it will stretch out to its full length and float down stream like disgusting latex torpedoes?

That water is the stuff of nightmares. When I would catch a crab my heart would stop for a second as I imagined what kind of mutated monsters lurked below the surface.

I can sadly attest to the veracity of what you say about inorganic refuse, and yes it's very disgusting. But I've seen more fish jumping than floating upside down. Have you actually seen a crab while rowing there?

Rather than clean the Riachuelo, it might be more appropriate and productive to refine it.

You mean Into chemical weapons rather than fuel, no?
I paddled from the southernmost dock into darsena sur where the casino is, basically riachuelian waters. there is some sort of barrier that is supposed to prevent riachuelian liquid from entering puerto madero, but the tides swing it wide open. I almost had a heart attack when I found myself trapped on the wrong side of it, but then the tides switched back again.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

I actually talked to the manager a week before they opened and he told me around 100USD during the sunset and less during the hot afternoon, but that was back in March. The point I got was that he wouldn't have too much issue negotiating a better price if there're idle "gondolas". He also informed me that they had to actually pay a license to the City of Venice to operate these electrically-propelled fiber-glass loosely-gondola-shaped swan boats.

We have gondolas in Oakland on Lake Merritt (not really a lake, but an estuary) at http://gondolaservizio.com/. I've never heard of their having to pay a license to Venice.

 

[ghost]

We have gondolas in Oakland on Lake Merritt (not really a lake, but an estuary) at http://gondolaservizio.com/. I've never heard of their having to pay a license to Venice.

shhhhh. trouble maker. We are talking about Venice Kirchner unknown cycloptic daughter of the botox queen

 

[Matt84]

We have gondolas in Oakland on Lake Merritt (not really a lake, but an estuary) at http://gondolaservizio.com/. I've never heard of their having to pay a license to Venice.

and those even look like gondolas.

 

[estebandepraga]

First of all, that BA pays hard cash to Venice...come on! They wont pay what they owe with the vultures funds to Griesa( and as he is so old ...he will be 85 in 5 months... he will mostl likely be dead soon so then they have another big waiting time and window before another judge takes it over!) and they are going to pay in euros, dollars or even worthless pesos to another chaotic country like la bella italia( a beautiful place but not the most organized.)
If they threw a lit match into the Riachuelo a bit further down, maybe we could make money by having the only non-stop "river" on fire 24 hrs daily!

 

[ghost]

Every time a new politician needs money they fund a Riachuelo clean up program. It's been cleaned up at least 8 times.