La Nebbia

We made a late start today, we had both been up early but just took a while to go out. The fog outside was really heavy and we both wished that we'd checked outside as soon as it was light.  We still managed to get some ok photos of the fog.

I love the fog/la nebbia as it really suits Venice, makes it more mysterious and softens everything.

This man sings opera in San Polo Campo dei Frari. He has been singing opera there for years and is still very good.

A typical daily scene - a lady in her dressing gown checking out what the workmen next door are doing

The fog is beautiful

Fondamente de la Dogana

The Campanile in San Marco rapidly disappeared in a cloud of fog.  Now you see it

Now you don't.

San Giorgio Maggiore

San Giorgio Maggiore taken from the Fondamenta De La Dogana

The Venice street lights are beautiful

Tonight the opera :)

After a slow start we're settled in.

We're in beautiful Venezia and settled into a beautiful apartment near Campo San Barnaba, one of our favourite locations in Venice. We've done lots of walking, caught up with lovely family and have started to work our way through the cakes and pastries at Pasticceria Tonolo - the best in Venice secondo noi :)

Rob is out running, getting ready for the Venice marathon on Sunday, while I'm sitting in the apartment eating Buranei biscuits from Tonolo. We hope that he will go ok but he has had a rotten lead up with injuries and the flu. No big storms predicted this year and it could be much warmer -it should be around 20C max.

We still haven't adjusted to the time difference though this morning slept in until around 5.00am so we're getting better.
The weather has been perfect for walking around and taking photos and we've only had one really rainy day so far.  I love Venice at this time of the year.

With doors like this you know you're in Venice

Even the corrosion has an artistic touch here

We're managing to have conversations in Italian and even though we know that we make heaps of mistakes, people are very patient and it is good to be able to talk about everyday stuff.

From Accademia bridge

Sculpture in garden next to the Accademia Bridge

A florist preparing his flowers in a campo

How it looks in the day light.  Will post more when I know more about it,

Aqua alta

There is aqua alta for the next three days in Venice -around 1. 2metres.  Jules and I went out when it was at the peak this morning. We bought wellies yesterday but I still manged to get wet feet from the waves on the Zattere.

The gondola was at the same level as the campo

Water being pumped from inside a shop

The marathon is supposed to be going through here tomorrow morning

and running through here as well :(

The squero/gondola workshop was very watery

Someone left a pile of cement :(

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