Venetian beauty
Back from Venice and beaming - it was wonderful. It's ages since I've been, and it was even more surreal and astonishing than I remembered, with the added layer of the Carnival, and the masks and costumes everywhere - some were jaw-dropping!
Well! That's typical!
Great to spend some quality time recently with an old and lovely friend, a decaying beauty - Venice. Wandering, watching and appreciating her over several days was brilliant.
The difficulty (or is it?!) is to bring one's own perspective - eye - to bear on one of the most photographed beauties on the planet... The gondola; those mooring posts; that intricate, secret labyrinth of tiny waterways. But maybe it isn't difficult at all...don't we actually see and photograph in our own way? Where's the choice, in reality? How can we do otherwise?
death in venice
Went over to the Lido while I was in Venice last month; it's only 10 minutes by vaporetto across the Lagoon to the waterbus stop by the main street. I walked across the island (less than a mile wide!) to the eastern shore. It was very much off season: just about everything was closed, and there weren't many people about. I was astonished by the rows and rows of beach huts - hundreds of them, all fenced off, waiting silently for summer life and occupation to begin.
