{"id":6319,"date":"2022-01-29T11:28:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T09:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/?p=6319"},"modified":"2025-08-14T19:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:37:44","slug":"revelion-la-venetia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/2022\/01\/revelion-la-venetia\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s Eve in Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here I am in Venice on New Year’s Eve. To be clearer, the plan made together with my friends, that of spending our New Year’s Eve here, failed, so I found myself in Venice, by myself. Alone in Venice! On New Year’s Eve!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I told myself I should see the full part of the glass: let me compare the pandemic Venice New Year’s Eve 2022 with London New Year’s Eve 2019, but especially with the Paris New Year’s Eve 2020, when I stood face to face with hundreds of thousands of people on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es. (God, how much covid virus must have been in the crowd then?…)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PANDEMIC NEW YEAR’S EVE<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I catch a new wave of changes in travel conditions. I receive an email saying that the ffp2 mask is mandatory on the plane, you don’t get on without it. So I take it in my pocket, thinking about putting it on before boarding (because I don’t feel comfortable with it).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s just that\u2026 what do you know, almost no one has a mask like this on their face, just normal masks. We are allowed to get on the plane like this, without any problem. Well, what about the new rule, man?…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Venice, the ffp2 mask is mandatory on public transportation, so I take it out of my pocket when I get on the vaporetto and put it on top of the normal one, because it’s easier like that. Only now I really understand that others, whom I thought to be scared of covid, do the same as me: wear one mask over the other. As soon as we get off the vaporetto, we take off our ffp2 mask and keep only the normal one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, during the few days spent here, I noticed that here too the rules are meant to be\u2026 interpreted. The ffp2 mask control on the vaporetto goes from “you are not allowed on the boat, I am sorry, go buy a ffp2 mask” to “ok, come on, go up with this non-compliant mask, but don’t do it again” or to total ignorance, so I see people with normal masks circulating without problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n