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The kind of calm on the Grand Canal that one hopes never to see again: 5 April 2020 during the first lockdown No, I've not stopped doing...

During lock down it's sometimes easy to feel something like that shovel-load of gravel in the image above, stopped in mid-flight between...

Saturday, 13 March 2021 I'll admit I've no inclination to write about the new lock down that began in Venice (and most of the rest o...

It was forbidden to be in the streets after 10 pm on New Year's Eve, as it has been for, well, I no longer remember how long now; forbid...

Above image and below: No buses, no taxis, no hustle or bustle: Marco Polo Airport this past Tuesday at mid-day   The philosopher Martin Hei...

Since the end of the summer the calli I take through Santa Croce to pick up our son from school have been emptying out. First, the already-...

The Declare boutique on Calle Seconda dei Saoneri 2671 (photographed before the start of an event on 24 November 2019) For over 200 years th...

Days of wine and poses: Biennale party at Ca' D'Oro, May 7, 2019 With Covid-19 infections starting to rise, the Italian government h...

The arcade running outside (and beneath) the Biblioteca Marciana has in recent months been as quiet as the proverbial library, even at t...

Beginning on April 16, and running through and beyond Italy's Liberation Day holiday on April 25, the Rialto bridge was lit with the c...

On an ordinary Friday night in early May this campo would be filled with candle-lit cafe tables and crowds--and gondolas-- along the water...

The weather this past Sunday was beautiful and the Grand Canal was barely ruffled by currents, winds or motorboat traffic--making it part...

Venice has relaxed its lock down just a little--a few more shops have been allowed to re-open (eg, makers of bread, and, curiously enough...

Actually, not just a piazza, but the piazza: the only space so named in Venice, and one of the most famously crowded in the world--but no...

Death (or the threat of it) never takes a holiday: on Pasquetta day emergency responders in full hazmat suits transport a coronavirus pati...