Feasting in and on Venice
The photobucket app worked once more, and thus I can present more Venetian impressions, of buildings and literati, for your visual delectation as well.
Here's one way to start the day: on the fish market near the Rialto:
or you could, you know, just go for some little canale appreciation:
This is how Venetians open an international festival of literature:
Multi media reading of the Syrian poet Adonis, see report in earlier post:
Michael Ondaatje and Linda Spalding, hungry in Venice:
...and then getting feasted in Venice along with the rest of us, in this place:
Now was that a buffet worth waiting for? Have a look at the other rooms:
Observe the detail:
This is where Robert Browning lay in state:
The view to the Palazzo Grassi on the other side of the Canale:
And a nightly Rialto wraps it up:
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/887916.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.
Here's one way to start the day: on the fish market near the Rialto:
or you could, you know, just go for some little canale appreciation:
This is how Venetians open an international festival of literature:
Multi media reading of the Syrian poet Adonis, see report in earlier post:
Michael Ondaatje and Linda Spalding, hungry in Venice:
...and then getting feasted in Venice along with the rest of us, in this place:
Now was that a buffet worth waiting for? Have a look at the other rooms:
Observe the detail:
This is where Robert Browning lay in state:
The view to the Palazzo Grassi on the other side of the Canale:
And a nightly Rialto wraps it up:
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/887916.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.