Out and about and a visit to San Giorgio Maggiore

"The Garbage Patch State Venice" an installation by Maria Cristina Finucci At the Ca' Foscari University. It is an arm made of plastic lids creeping over the wall

Lids in onion bags

The Vigili del fuoco -the Fire Brigade Venice style

Vigili del fuoco. Fire fighting would be a nightmare here despite the water everywhere as access would be very difficult

There are a lot of scultures and other art works throughout Venezia from the Biennale. This one is near the Ca Rezzonico vaporetto stop

It was supposed to be a rainy day with lightning etc so we changed our plans to go to Torcello and went to S Giorgio Maggiore -the beautiful church across the canal in the background of all of those gondola shots taken from near S Marco.

S Giorgio Maggiore with a statue in front by British artist Marc Quinn:  "Alison Lapper Pregnant"

Alison Lapper Pregnant

Detail from statue

This photographer was fussing around posing these models in Carnevale type dress

We never tire of the beautiful mosaics

We went to the top of the campanile -our cameras don't do the view justice

Gardens in the S Giorgio Maggiore Monastery

Looking across Giudecca

Giudecca on the left and Zattere on the right

The bridge is being built across the canal for the Venice marathon on Sunday

No need for comment!

Later in the day we went to Parco San Giuliano and Rob picked up his pack for the marathon.  It will be the third time that he has run the Venice Marathon and this time it sounds as though the weather will be good.

Maaxi

I've had the flu for a few days so haven't posted -didn't want to waste the few days we have left so have gone out but not bothered with the blog.  We went to Maxxi yesterday and I loved it.
http://www.fondazionemaxxi.it/?lang=en

Maxxi is Rome's contemporary art and architecture museum which is set in an absolutely amazing gallery space.  There were several really good exhibitions and we spent hours checking them out. The "Indian Highway" exhibition was really impressive and had some very large complex sculptures.  It is really worth seeing.  You can't take photos in the gallery space so check out the Maxxi web site to see a selection of exhibits.

We were interviewed for a customer satisfaction survey (in Italian, we managed to answer everything ok so our Italian must be improving). I felt obliged to answer after having subjected people to interviews for years as part of my work :)

Maxxi is at Via Guido Reni, 4/A   Roma 00196

Opening hours
Tue-Wed-Thur-Fri-Sun
11.00-19.00
Sat
11.00-22.00

Closed
every Monday,  1 May & 25 December