Venice Kayak hosted German TV presenter Michael Friemel in October, and the resulting programme “Venedig – da will ich hin!” was aired on November 27th on SR.
via SR Fernsehen / da will ich hin! and online in the SR Fernsehen Mediathek (the kayaking part is at 0:10-0:13).
From Ryanair Magazine, September 2011:
For the same price as a traditional gondola ride, you can spend the afternoon exploring small canals inaccessible to pedestrians, enjoy the palaces up close and experience the Grand Canal and all its lively traffic.
via Try it by Kayak | Ryanair Magazine | European Travel News.
The photographer Filippo Mutani spent two days in September with Venice Kayak for a feature for the Financial Times, and he has put some of his photos from these days on his web site.
The Financial Times has published a photo gallery with photos by Filippo Mutani, who paddled with us last weekend.
Venice Kayak and our partner Hotel Cipriani is featured in an article by Ian Belcher in the Financial Times, September 16th, 2011.
It’s an intoxicating moment. A perfect symmetry of sight, sound and scent. As we paddle past the elegantly decaying brickwork of Venice’s music academy, the notes of a rehearsing tenor waft through the open window, blending Puccini into the sticky heat and salty, rancid aroma of the Rio del Santissimo di Santo Stefano.
Venice Kayak has appeared on Brazilian television, in a programme called Pelo Mundo.
The coverage can be seen online here: Empresa oferece passeios de caiaque guiados pelos canais de Veneza
Venice for Visitors – one of the authoritative Venice travel web sites – have recently featured Venice Kayak on their front page.
In the last several years, we’ve occasionally noticed small flotillas of kayaks in the back canals of Venice. We never gave them much thought until a reader asked about boat rentals, whereupon we discovered Venice Kayak in a Google search.
Read more on the Venice for Visitors blog
Venice Kayak was featured in an article in the largest Swedish daily on Sunday, June 12th:
Glöm dyra gondolturer! Att paddla kajak under broarna på Venedigs alla kanaler måste vara det absolut bästa sättet att uppleva en av världens vackraste städer.
Article by Helene Lundgren, photo by Felix Oppenheim.
When we’re paddling around Venice we often get photographed, very often indeed, and every once in a while the photos appear here and there, in magazines, on web sites, in blogs or even in advertising. We do stick out a bit in the canals of Venice.
Last month when I was out paddling with a couple, I paddled backwards down the Canal Grande, just so I could get them some good holiday shots from their kayaking tour in Venice.
By chance Fausto Maroder who works at the Alloggi Barberia in Venice, noticed it and took some photos. He has later put those photos on his blog.
Interestingly, while I did it to take photographs, he imagines I did it to be photographed.
Here are a few other photos from that same day.
“À faire en Italie : la liste de François-Étienne” is a different travel series in television, produced by Canadian Evasion TV.
Venice Kayak features prominently in one of the two Venice programmes:
Dans cet épisode, François-Étienne apprend à créer un masque pour le carnaval de Venise, il monte dans la célèbre basilique Saint-Marc pour y admirer ses chevaux et il visite la réputée boutique Venini où l’on vend du verre de Murano. Aussi, il contemple Venise d’un nouveau regard en participant à une expédition de kayak dans ses canaux et il découvre ses secrets les mieux gardés grâce à Ana, la Vénitienne, qui l’initie au visage moins touristique de la ville. Et, bien sûr, il est hors de question pour François-Étienne de quitter Venise sans manger son plat typique, les seiches, et sans passer par la célèbre piazza San Marco!
The kayaking part of the programme is online on Vimeo, from where the video below comes.
The video footage was shot in the summer of 2010, and the other paddlers are Canadian Steve Lutsch and Venetian Loretta Masiero.
