Wandering round Venice – night and day.
Everyone who visits Venice goes to San Marco, Saint Mark’s Square. well, you have to, don’t you. The last time I was there, in 2011, the square was so crowded you had to push your way through the crowd and…
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What happened to the cats in Venice?
I knew something was different about Venice since the last time I’d been there. Those empty-looking streets and squares felt strange. Then it dawned on me, unlike most Italian cities, there were no cats. No curled up purrers, no…
The city of Venice from the water.
I have just spent two weeks in the glorious and much photographed city of Venice. It’s one of those places that has been much written about and so much loved that I hesitate to add my two kilos of…
Not so much Death In Venice as Life on the Venetian Lido
As some of you know, I haven’t been too well this year so it was a great idea to spend two weeks in Venice this summer. I got back a couple of weeks ago and, even though I can’t report…
Campari Orange withdrawal symptoms after living it up in Venice.
I know a lot of you have been worried about me. You all think that I will find it hard adjusting to getting back home to Lewes in England after two glorious weeks on holiday in Venice where, amongst other…
Life in Venice – as intoxicating as ever.
I have been on holiday and have just got back from two weeks in Venice – just long enough to begin to feel that it was home. I’ve always loved Italy and now it doesn’t feel right to let a…
Richard Wagner: the other Death In Venice.
Dirk Bogart in the 1971 Visconti film Death In Venice I haven’t been well over the last few weeks and, without being exactly a hypochondriac, my mind does go back at these times to that great death scene in the…
Life in Venice
When I woke up the other weekend, I had forgotten that I was in Venice but the view from my hotel room soon reminded me. On my trip round Switzerland and Italy, I had come to Venice for the weekend…
Gone fishing – for art and fun – in Switzerland and Italy.
I am off on my holidays again, this time to Switzerland and Italy, and won’t be back until the 14th. August but I thought I would write something to entertain you, I hope, whilst I am away. When I was…