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Another Venetian day
Can't imagine ever getting used to waking to the sound of boats swishing along the canal outside the bedroom window. It's so restful and relaxing and renewing. Decided we needed a slow morning so found a canal side cafe and drank coffee, read our wonderful marriage book (Safe Haven by Arch and Sharon May Hart) and talked. If you ever have to recommend a book for married couples, whether newly, or old married couples ...
Canal City
... as we were booked in for a tour of a Murano glass factory and the Burano lace stores the next day.
When we were at dinner Kat’s charm completely won over one of our waiters, who ‘fell in love with her’ and gave us a couple of free drinks. Score! He had also said that he would show us a nice bar to go to later when he finished work, but after we got showered and dressed back at the hotel and ready to go ...
To See Venice and Die
... and a lifetime away at that moment. The sun rose in a peachy-golden hue, illuminating the baby-blue sky as far the eye could see. We stood alone on the banks of the canal in front of the Doges' Palace and the Bridge of Sighs. As the sun rose, the full moon from the previous night was still clearly visible over towards the direction of the Rialto Bridge. Everything was absolutely silent, and perfect and untouched. It was glorious, and the city was ...
Miracle in the 21st century
... it!
was nearly derailed though when kelsey wanted me to join some enormous queue to view a museum, shudder.
we took a vaporetto (local water-bus) on it,s entire circuit up the grand canal, round the island and back to our originsl stop. that was great as we snagged seats outside and up the front, where we happily clicked away with our cameras. everone here in venice is ...
Venezia
... Arp's 'Overturned blue shoe with two heels under a black vault' (see http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/coll ections/collection-online/show-full/pie ce/?search=overturned%20blue%20shoe& ;page=1&f=quicksearch&cr=1),
Georges Vantongerloo's 'Construction of volumetric interrelationships derived from the inscribed square and the square circumscribed by a circle' (except there was no circle to be seen, see ...