In the seven centuries since the Ponte Vecchio was first built in Florence, Italy, the bridge has watched the city changing around it, surviving floods, fires and the Nazi invasion in World War II.
There was a sort of frenetic energy at Da Nang Station, a rail hub about halfway down Vietnam’s tropical coast. People lugging suitcases and duct-taped polystyrene boxes were streaming in and out of its utilitarian entrance, but none looked like they were on holiday.
The Tampa refrigerant company iGas has given more than $1.1 million since 2019 to DeSantis and other politicians, largely in Florida, as the company is involved in a dispute with the EPA.
“Everybody still smiling?” Our skipper Fredrik Alfjard flashes a wide grin as he checks each row of our Rib. The ten-seater craft has spent the past couple of hours zigzagging between the smaller islands of Bohuslan, west Sweden’s seafood coast, on a gourmet odyssey.