venezia blog

Summer tempests sweep into the lagoon swiftly--and usually move on just as quickly. But if you find yourself in a small open boat on the lag...

14 July 2021

13 October 2017   After regularly posting to this blog for 14 years, last April I found I no longer felt the urge to do so. Given the cruelt...

I've posted this image before, but I'm still trying to get its colors right (11 April 2018)

These kids are now adults--I wonder how many of them still live in Venice. And I wonder if kids today can still play like this in the campo,...

31 March 2018

21 March 2014 Gigi Miracol, who, like Odysseus, might truly be called a "man of many ways" (in the ancient Greek sense of abilitie...

Those many people who can only conceive of Venice as a symbol of death and decay have obviously never been behind the walls of the historic ...

30 January 2017 I haven't posted here for quite some, and have actually not been inclined to do so since the American election in early...

St. Mark's lion and his open book on one side of the flag pole base in Campo San Polo. As America's Republican Party has now gone f...

21 September 2013  

Our friend's larger heavier sanpierota tows our new boat homeward yesterday evening, with our six-year-old son (barely visible behind t...

Five years ago today the police and carabinieri were out in full force (and riot gear) to keep a huge protest against cruise ships in the Ve...

22 May 2016

8 May 2020

Though countless people travel over this bridge every day on wheels or rails, few of them suspect how many people travel beneath it in boat...

28 February 2018: These are shots of what I believe was the last snowfall we had in Venice until the time we left in August of 2021. When we...

12 February 2014 I'd forgotten entirely about the above image, taken from the twin pontile of the one you see in the right corner of th...

For more on this important Venetian feast day please see: https://veneziablog.blogspot.com/2013/11/festa-della-madonna-della-salute-and.html...

I don't even know how one would reach the above field on foot: it's on the northern edge of Murano, and a small canal passes by it j...