Just some of the delights waiting for you in the Veneto. You’ll often read on sites like TripAdvisor folks complaining about the food in Venice, and invariably it really is just a matter of not knowing where to look for the good stuff and failure to get away from the tourist traps. Don’t miss out on the culinary experience of a lifetime when you’re there–let us help you get to “the real deal!”
Monthly Archives: December 2015
Cannaregio Canal
We usually think of darkness, fog, rain, mist, night as things that conceal and foster mystery. That calculus is turned on its head in Venice, where night and weather reveal the mystery, the romance rather than obscure them.
Burano, a Tramonto
The vaporetto ride back from Burano to Fondmenta Nuove is always a bit wistful–Burano is the sort of place where you want to buy a small house and take up life as a fisherman just so you can wake up there. But sunsets like this make it a bit easier to accept!
From the San Giorgio Maggiore Campanile
Sunset shot with a fisheye on a 35mm prime lens. Fun time to be up there!
Venice At Night
From a canal bridge near Campo Santi Apostoli. Click to enlarge to really get the full effect!
So You Heard There’s No Good Food In Venice?
This plate of mushroom ragu pappardelle begs to differ. Where to find it? At one of our “secret spots.” Join us in Italy this winter or spring, and we promise you a plate of it.
Italian Mountains
Beautiful.
Torcello’s Lonely Sentry
This magnificent fellow stands a lonely watch outside the sculpture museum on Torcello, the quiet little island where the first Venetians built a homestead to hide from the raiding Lombards and their ilk. To think of all that’s come and gone for the Venetian republic since an anonymous sculptor liberated him from a marble blank centuries ago…
Canalside Gelato, Red Hair…Gorgeous
Christmas in Venice with RoboCop
This is a great read from a great actor who had the experience so many a tourist has had at first with Venice, only to come to love it for what it is once he had the chance to circumnavigate the tourist traps and experience the real Venice deeply and fully.
Hat tip Dream of Venice.
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