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Publication of the Month: Kayaking in the Lagoon of Venice in KANU MAGAZIN (Germany)

Do you know a kayaker's paradise where you hardly meet another kayaker? Where one moment you paddle among water birds flying up and the next between churches and palaces? Where you sleep in a canal house the first night and have a whole island to yourself the second? It exists: Venice and its lagoon. Kanu Magazin from Germany, Europe's largest journal on kayaking, published the story.

Have a look at the other pages of this publication.

Excerpt of the Month: A Dungeon as Laboratory

The master alchemist had boasted to August the Strong, King of the Saxons, that he could make gold. “Go for it,” August said and supplied him with all the equipment he needed…and a dungeon as his laboratory. August deemed isolation the safest way to ensure the alchemist would under no circumstance reveal his working methods to others.

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Excerpt from The Irony of History, about the region around Dresden.

Picture of the Month: a house front that makes music

After building for twelve years, the jewel was put back in the crown of Dresden's skyline with the inauguration of the Frauenkirche in October 2005. That was headline news. But during recent years more great architecture has seen the light in Dresden, that celebrates its 800th birthday this year. The Kunsthof Passage in the hip Neustadt quarter, for instance. It's an explosion of architectural creativity, like here in the Hof der Elemente (Courtyard of the Elements). This façade makes music when it rains. (Photo Paul Smit).

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This picture is part of the feature Around Dresden.