La nebbia

Fog (nebbia) is incredibly beautiful in Venice and it gives the city a really mysterious and secretive feel.
When we're in Venice there are often days with really heavy fog but this year we have had clear bright days except for our last morning. After checking out of our apartment we spent the last hour before our train left racing around taking photos.  I'm glad that we did as the fog was beautiful and in some parts of the city and on the water, visibility was really low.

 View from the Rialto

 The Rialto markets 

 Campo S. Angelo with the leaning Campanile barely visible in the background

 Gondolas near the Rialto

 Three gondolas in the Grand Canal with one stupid tourist trying to stand up. If he'd fallen in it would have been very difficult to find him.

 The same gondolas about 30 metres away

 View from the Ponte degli Scalzi

Chiesa San Simeone Piccolo across from the railway station is visible through the fog

Wet November days in Venice

 Pick the Australian tour guide :)

There was aqua alta and a 10 minute break in the rain and the tour guide was telling everyone about the great outside bars

Queue of gondole waiting to go under the Accademia bridge

 Very heavy rain in the middle of the day

These tourists weren't missing out on their gondola ride for anything.

I don't think that the person with the orange umbrella would have seen a thing

On the 11th of November there are usually heaps of kids around banging pots and pans and collecting money and treats. Instead of the usual paper crowns these kids had plastic firefighters' helmets -much better on a wet day and easier for parents and teachers to keep track of them.  There are flat San Martino cakes in every pasticceria - a brightly decorated man on horseback with chocolates stuck to the icing.

Venice in the October sun

We have had absolutely brilliant weather in Venice - a bit cold but blue skies and very sunny.  We have spent our days wandering around  and eating at interesting places.

 There is always lots of manoeuvering with boats

 A line of tourists waiting to load their luggage onto a  water taxi

 The Canareggio Canal

 Many Jewish people were sent to their deaths in Concentration Camps by the Germans from Venice in World War Two. This monument is near the Casa di Riposo - elderly people were brutally taken from the nursing home.

We know of one person who lived in Venice and was related to the Abolafio side of the family who was killed at Auschwitz. There were many other surnames in the monument that are in the Venice family tree including Rava', Sacerdote and Mendes. So horrible.

Arrivederci Venezia

We were a bit slack with taking photos on our last full day in Venice.
Rob went for a run early in the morning and took some more photos from  the Ponte della Libertà.  The fishing nets are quite interesting and are set in really shallow water.

Rob ran along the path on the bridge in the dark -there's no way that I would do it.

We went for a stroll in the morning had our last caffe and bigne con gianduia at PasticceriaTonolo and afterwards came across a market in Campo S Tomà -I browsed through the stalls and found some glass that I liked. Rob is not at all fussed with markets and was glad when I was finished :)

We had lunch with Rosaria and Livio, once again Rosaria cooked some great things -Baccala veneziana and tagliatelli con funghi porcini, both were fantastic.


We wandered around Venice for a bit and then reluctantly went back to the apartment and did the boring packing stuff. Our suitcases are at bursting point. It looks like we'll have to visit Poste Italiane before we go to Torino :(

The cruise ships are huge and there is quite a strong movement against them for so many reasons by the people of Venice.  Small traders don't make much money from them as the cruise passengers don't spend much money -many even bring picnic lunches from the boats. The waves created by the boats can't be doing Venice any good.

Venezia: gondole, canali e calle

A selection of photos from our last few days in Venice. Mainly canals and gondolas.

An old well in a courtyard

i liked this lamp -a hand and forearm holding the lamp

Aqua alta: water seeping up from under the pavement

Two gondoliere hanging around waiting for customers - not trying too hard as the footpath was submerged by aqua alta

Another two having a chat in the middle of the Grand Canal :)