Noilly Prattle: Venice on the half shell

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Venice on the half shell

     Tired of Piazza San Marco, or the Rialto Bridge or any of the other crowded tourist meccas in Venice?



       If you're here long enough (more than the average 2.6 days visitors spend in Venice) and get off the beaten path, a somewhat more off-beat Venice could open up to the alert eye.

Venus on the half shell
in Venetian glass
       Here is just a random sample of odds and ends or little vignettes that caught my and my camera's eye in the past week of roaming around by water and on foot. 

          However, not to denigrate the beauty and attraction of Venice's traditional haunts, I have plenty of photos of those, too--but so does everybody else . . .



ambulance 

restaurant workers smoke and schmooze  break


















shutters
fixer upper for sale
very large glass sculpture in Murano














knick knacks on a wall in Venetian glass







glass Japanese tea house






grey cat on a brick wall










Baptismal fount














bridge arch













resting backpackers

scene from "The Birds"?




on the vaporetto








water police - workers preparing for
the Regatta on Sunday


wash day











a monorail (I think)






sculpture of WWII Italian Resistance fighter















floating watches in a store window display










a private yacht










a turtle and water lilly pads

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