Venice (1)

Back from Venice with the firm conviction that I would only show a very limited number of photos. However...

During my wonderful ten days in Venice, I had the privilege to share some time with Nathalie and Richard. As you can guess from Nathalie’s (Australian) umbrella, the sky was sometimes grey, but it was also sometimes intensively blue. The water level varied; we had also a bit of “aqua alta”, including one day when the level was the highest since some 20 years (I will revert on this in a later post).

I will try to finish with Venice this week, starting with some pictures from around Saint Mark’s Square (the yellow circle).

Some days gave thus the opportunity to take most photos by mirroring. For some reason it seemed that the pigeons had been replaced by seagulls.


Here are some pictures outside and inside the famous Saint Mark’s Basilica and the Doge’s Palace.

The Bridge of Sighs behind the Doge's Palace was (almost) hidden due to renovation works.

The weather was fairly fresh and it felt nice to have a cup of cappuccino or espresso doppio at the equally famous Caffè Florian, Italy’s oldest café (1720)...

... unless you prefer to make the few extra steps to the close by Harry's Bar.

You can find these photos in full and as a slide show on Ipernity.

Rakesh kindly offered me this "Free Spirit and Independent" reward. Sincere thanks!