Venice rhymes with Wine

Shortly after we had met, my now wife and I went for a morning walk around Venice, and at around eleven we stopped in a bar. As a northerner, that was still cappuccino time for me, but she ordered wine — a glass of prosecco.

Much later, I told the story to her father. "She's a good girl," he replied, and seemed quite content. Naturally, he, as a born and bred Venetian, wouldn't be seen drinking water, unless he was ill. "Acqua fa marsir i pałi," was a common reply. Water makes the mooring posts rot, which implies that you'll lose your boat.

Now, my wife and her late father aren't alcoholics. They're Venetians.

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