Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Sunset Panorama This Evening


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  1. I lived in Venice for 27 years, went to Sant'Elena few times a year for all the years we sailed, but I never noticed how breathtaking the sunsets can be from the island until a summer evening three years ago. I guess I was always back in Dorso Duro at that time of the day or I was clueless.

    Thanks for sharing, boy do I miss the lagoon.

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    1. I suspect there are worse things one could do than make a vow to never miss a Venetian sunset, Laura, but it would be a hard vow to keep. But even then the problem would be that one could only watch them from a single location at a time. I've seen a sunset while standing on the Accademia Bridge that I couldn't imagine looking more beautiful from anyplace else, and yet, what must it have looked like from San Giorgio Maggiore? Or Sant' Elena? Or the north lagoon? Or Lido? I guess on most days when it come to sunsets it's usually catch as catch can, though I've often thought of being more diligent about trying to see them.

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  2. I miss the lagoon too! Sigh…
    Beautiful picture - thank you so much for sharing it!
    Bridget

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    1. Thank you, Bridget. When I first lived for a very short time in Venice 20 years ago all I cared about was the human-built city and its art and those were the things I missed when I left. Now the city means the lagoon to me, and it's the lagoon rather than the architecture or art that makes it hard to imagine living anywhere else.

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