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Mining the Diaries 82: Italy 2011 988 Calle Larga Nani, Venice, 7th October 2011 Six-thirty: clamorous clanging of church bells; cloudy outside and starting to rain, first a few drops and the heavily.  Breakfast.  We read and play canasta until … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 75: Italy 2009

2969 Calle Del Forno, Venice, 21st September 2009 Woke about 6.30 and sat by the window reading The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt while Nina slept.  Footsteps, boats and voices outside – the Venetian dawn chorus. After breakfast … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 72: Italy 2008

2969 Calle Del Forno, Venice, 7th September 2008 This a first floor apartment overlooking the Rio di S. Margherita and the Calle Del Forno.  When the children in the apartment above run about the lights in the dining room chandelier … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 69: Italy 2007

Rezzonico Garden 2796 Calle del Traghetto, Venice, 1st September 2007 A morning in what has become one of my favourite place in Venice, the curious, often macabre, Museo Fortuny, in the former Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei.  Today the dark mystery … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 61: Italy 2005

2796 Calle del Traghetto, Venice, 27th June 2005 This year we have abandoned the Piano Rialzato, though we are still in the sestieri of Dorsodoro.  The entrance to number 2796 is through anonymous wooden double doors directly off the Calle … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 55: Italy 2004

Piano Rialzato, Venice, 6th May 2004 The day started with patches blue breaking the overcast sky and promising better things.  By quarter past eight, when I went to buy bread and a melon in the Campo Santa Margherita, the sun … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 53: Italy 2003

Piano Rialzato, Venice, 14th September 2003 We set out to walk from the Campo de la Bragora to San Pietro di Castello via Campo San Martin, Fondamenta Arsenale, Giardini Garibaldi, Ponte Santa Anna, a trail described in the excellent Venetian … Continue reading

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Cream Tea

One of the pleasures/challenges of printing with analog photography used to be deciding on what paper to use.  Agfa, Ilford and Kodak all produced papers designed specifically to produce images ranging from neutral to warm tones – in the warmest … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 49: Italy 2002

Piano Rialzato, Venice, 16th September 2002 The soundscape is one of the best and most distinctive things about Venice.  At home we hear aeroplanes, ambulance sirens and the rumble of traffic.  Here there is a sound track playing a continual, … Continue reading

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Mining the Diaries 44: Italy 2001

Piano Rialzato, Fondamenta Gheradini, Venice, 12th -13th March 2001 Venice was enveloped in mist; La Serenissima looked forlorn and faded; boats sounded mournful warnings and bells tolled out of invisible campaniles. It was graduation time at Foscari University and along … Continue reading

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Venice Scrapbook May 2023

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Liberia Acqua Alta, Venice

One of Venice’s stranger attractions. ‘Cozy, offbeat bookstore featuring lots of vintage titles along with unique displays & resident cats.’ No cats when we visited; and contrary to expectations the man running it knew where to find everything.

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Morning Coffee in Italy

My visit to Trieste and Venice in May offered so much to enjoy and savour – history, great architecture, wonderful paintings and sculpture, memorable food and drink, and ever changing and relaxing sea and waterways.  The physical world combined with … Continue reading

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Museo Fortuny

A favourite place in Venice: ‘The Museo Fortuny or Fortuny Museum is an art museum in San Marco, in central Venice, Italy. The museum is housed in the Palazzo Pesaro Orfei, now often known as Palazzo Fortuny, where Mariano Fortuny … Continue reading

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Only Colour: Venice Yellow

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