I’m sitting at my desk looking over Sydney Harbour as I often do when things are a little slow here at work. Scooting past the usual scenery of a ferry, a square-rigger, a submarine, a lightship and a destroyer, is a gondola.
I check again with my binocs. Yes, it is unquestionably a gondola. Black, shiny, curvaceous. Chap with straw hat on rear (of gondola, not his own rear) (that is, the chap is on the rear of the gondola and is wearing a hat - the hat is not on either his or the gondola’s rear, nor is the chap on his own rear. I hope that’s clear now). Not, so far as can be told, singing O Sole Mio, but apart from that exactly as seen in every move set in Venezia.
Far canal!