1.   And no painter ever gave more life to water than Monet did in his scenes of Venetian canals, the Thames and his own lily pond.

2.   The cityscapes range from pre-Mayan and Babylonian to Venetian canals and the precipitous, illuminated towers of skyscrapers.

3.   These have taken place in a drained Venetian canal and along opposite banks of the Thames in London.

4.   They include an air cycle to fly over an amusement park, a water scooter to go along rivers and Venetian canals, and snowmobile.

5.   Travel brochures compare it to a Venetian canal or a Tex-Mex French Quarter.