Gardens spilling over and into the courtyards - this is the impression I always get when I go for an extended lunch to a very particular ga...

Dear readers , this is our first post in a long time, and while I'm writing, Venice is going through a particularly challenging time. ...

Have you noticed that Venice is a vertical city, because it can be quite a narrow environment sometimes on the ground level. Even gardens c...

The Giardinetti Reali seen from the Campanile di San Giorgio Maggiore A rather sizable garden, part of Piazza San Marco - easily within...

Happy Whitsunday to all of you !! Today I am forwarding a suprise post - not yet about the Voga Longa which is taking place today, but abo...

New Years Eve: The Procurazie Nuove Arcades, with the Christmas luminarie  (lights) still switched on, as they are every day now until 12 ...

Le giornate della merla - blackbird days: First article in the series "Mermaid Colors in Venice". This year, I would like to ...

Have you ever seen the Lagoon enveloped in ice-blue light? January is the time when colors turn ice-blue and the contours of lagoon and sky...

Since the past ten years or so, the central and northern European tradition of making advent crowns in December has also embarked in Venice!...

Come se l'autunno fosse arrivato in gennaio - as if autumn had arrived in January in Venice. A few days ago, I took a walk around T...