1. Besides I don't think the gondoliers work in the depths of winter.

2. I have been the gondolier for a gentleman there. But a fair distance out!

3. The gondolier course lasts six months and includes 400 hours of instruction in using the single oar that is used to propel a gondola through the water.

4. The president of the United States a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names.

5. Below: At first the crew had to dress as gondoliers, much to the amusement of their colleagues!

6. Magisterial palaces and impressive churches sit alongside simple, scenic quaysides and straw-hatted gondoliers.

7. "Oh-eh, oh-eh, " calls Roberto Luppi, a Venetian- born gondolier, each time he reaches a precarious bend.

8. After 900 years of male dominance, the authorities of the Italian lagoon city of Venice have for the first time granted a full license to a female gondolier.