{"id":171686,"date":"2014-09-01T15:57:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T22:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=171686"},"modified":"2014-09-01T15:57:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T22:57:31","slug":"the-canals-of-venice-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2014\/09\/01\/the-canals-of-venice-california\/","title":{"rendered":"The canals of Venice (California)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We’ve lived here over 6 years and still haven’t seen a lot of California (yet). So we decided to check out the canals of Venice, CA. We took the dogs, they had a terrific time smelling everything. The original canals were designed by Abbot Kinney, one of the early developers of Venice – the ones there now date back to 1905. It is beautiful and quiet there, and we did see a duck – and it smelled like the Amsterdam canals and the water was quite green. All in all it was quite enjoyable, wish I could afford to live there!<\/p>\n

We then walked around Venice a bit, visiting Obsolete Gallery<\/a> and especially down Abbot Kinney Blvd. (named after the same guy) which is a good shopping area.<\/p>\n

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LSD on a wall in Venice <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Exploded bird skull at Obsolete Gallery <\/div> <\/div>
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A collection of 1800s mannequins at Obsolete Gallery <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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A cool shop on Abbot Kinney <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Front of Bountiful, a cool store on Abbot Kinney <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We’ve lived here over 6 years and still haven’t seen a lot of California (yet). So we decided to check out the canals of Venice, CA. We took the dogs, they had a terrific time smelling everything. The original canals were designed by Abbot Kinney, one of the early developers of Venice – the ones […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[154,153,143,403],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-los-angeles","category-travel-foreign","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t