Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Venetian Altane On a Cloudy Day

With the Rialto Bridge just below and a view of San Marco in the distance, these are classic Venetian altane, and are also (not surprisingly) tourist rentals (taken November 19, 2018)

Saturday, September 25, 2021

Sleeping Hard, Rialto

26 May 2018, midnight: even in the fantasy-land and playground that is Venice, with mainland kids coming into the city on weekends to drink and urinate and vomit in the calli, social reality sometimes intrudes.

Thursday, September 9, 2021

Boys of Summer, Al Bacan

As our son starts school today in Toronto and summer officially comes to a close for him (and us), here's an image of him and his friends during the height of summer taken at il bacan, the sandbank extending eastwards off Sant' Erasmo, on 27 July 2021