I should apologise for the phone camera images, but it was them or nothing. So, live with it!
The first two were taken as I walked home from an excellent dinner and an evening of vivacious conversation. (Thanks .. you know who you are!)
Even that darn bridge looked good with a figure emerging out of the fog.
These were taken from the Accademia Bridge, looking towards the Salute church.
And, here’s what about 100 others and I were up to this morning: cleaning some of the graffiti from the cowardly attack on Saturday.
Photo courtesy of Mary. Thank you!
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Love your photos Yvonne. Looking forward to seeing some of those sights in person.
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Lovely photos. Venice is beautiful.
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Yes, it is, especially at this time of year.
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Thank you for helping clean up. Love the snow,but hope it stays on my screen!
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Ahhh… one of these days I will return.
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Try to come in the winter months, if you can, spixl
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I think your photos of the night are sensational. All the better I think for the camera you used. Sounds like a wonderful evening…. and you have a beautiful memory showing in that photo. I think I am blown away! ( I am very sad about the morning… poor poor Venice xx)
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It was a very wonderful evening on many levels, Gill. I think the photos fit the atmosphere nicely.
We’ve got lots more work to do with the mess created by those pseudo-anarchists. 😦
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Some Venice lovers may not have read in Joseph Brodsky’s ‘Watermark’
the bit about the Venetian winter fogs, which are so thick that if you do pop out to shop you can find your way back through the tunnel your body carved through the fog on the way out. Also, after some false starts, I found the location of the photo of the graffiti-busters. They named a mint after it.
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Oh, you mean Campo Pepper, Bert?
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No, silly, Campo Spear.
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There’s no snow on your blog on my computer and I’m hoping there’s none on mine. I turned it off a couple of years ago.
I love the foggy photos. They are very mystical.
And as I type, the snow starts. Ha ha.
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The snow goblins watch and hear, et!
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I’m checking right now and there is no precipitation on my blog. Fingers crossed!
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Your pictures are fabulous! I love the fog pictures. Have a great holiday, Yvonne. 🙂
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Thank you, ma’am. I’ll try hard to have a good time!
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No matter what you take the photos with Venice is beautiful to me. Bravo to your cleaning group!
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I wish I’d had my Lazy Crazy Kanadian Kid in Training t-shirt ready for yesterday. 🙂
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Haha well that would have started some discussion!
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That lovely photo of the man on the bridge….that’s how the whole world looks to me when I take off my glasses…..Are you the woman in the photo with the woman in it?
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It’s good to be near sighted sometimes! Yes, the woman in the photo with the woman in it is moi. I had to stop and do some real thinking before I answered your question.
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It’s nice to put a lovely, happy face to all these words we’ve been swapping!
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Thank you and the others who showed their love for Venice. I hope the 50 who were identified will be brought to justice. They should be made to wash off all the graffiti in the city as a punishment; and made to pay a heavy fine.
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Oh, if only that would happen, Emma, it would be well applauded. There was a family there with 3 teenage sons. The sons were really involved in the cleaning. That bodes well for the future, I think.
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I love fog – great photos! Yvonne, I am taking a bit of a blog break until January so just wishing you and yours a wonderful Christmas!
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I saw you were taking a well deserved break, Julie. I hope your plan to take Christmas to Anthony goes really well. ❤
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Great pics – especially the man on bridge. You could easily have mist him.
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That’s a genuine groaner, from the Master of the Art Form.
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Those pics make all the old stories and operas set in Venice into reality. Sorry about the graffiti problem, Venice does not deserve that and good for you and friends for the clean up work.
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The people behind the clean up efforts that go on all the time are all in their 40s and 50s. They are passionate about their city, I wish one of them was the mayor!
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Great atmospheric shots. Especially the figure on the bridge
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Have you seen what your mate, Bruce had to say (comment above)? I should have been ready for it, but was lulled into complacency.
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I just went back to look. He’s such a wit.
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He (and Cynthia) are a true comedy team. You get your bit in also, I notice.
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🙂
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I love a foggy night in Venice!
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We’re having a long spell of fog. I want one clear day so I can go to Torcello and get up the recently re-opened campanile to look out onto the lagoon.
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I have been lost in the fog here for the past three days so dense could not see the hood of the car let alone attempt to drive to work. Would that it would be happening in Venice instead here forced to do the daily grind.
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Now, wouldn’t that be excellent? And, I could finally meet you, and we’d go shopping! (Hah!)
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shopping sounds good. Sadly we have the same problem with graffiti here so sad when they trash their own community.
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I love the pic of the fog. It’s like all those old movies set in London. And I missed something – tell me about the graffiti
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On Saturday, a mob of about 150 rampaged through a part of Venice, spraying graffiti as they went, and destroying several ATMs as a bonus. They were protesting the deportation of about 12 miscreants who are languishing in jail here. Suffice it to say it was a frightening, ugly situation for anyone in their path. A graffiti cleaning flash mob was organised, and we cleaned as much as we could today. The whole city also suffers from random, ugly graffiti, unfortunately. And, we’re talking about marble, ancient walls, ancient structures. Poor Venice.
The fellow to the far left of the photo is from Melbourne, by the way.
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Note that I’m liking your comment and not the graffiti. I can’t help but wonder why people insist on protesting with vandalism. That isn’t actually a question that I imagine will ever be answered.
Wish, I’d been there to help.
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Yes, it’s not likely people will say “Oh boy, I like the way you protest, and I’m on-board to support you.”
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I think that if graffiti vandals are caught they should be permanently tattooed with a copy of their mindless work!
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They’d have full body art in that case. I hope it would be very painful, and get infected …
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Lovely photos. I should be there 😡
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Yes, you should. And, you could!
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And, you need a break. I can hook you up for some graffiti cleaning …
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Lovely pictures. We can tell you are enjoying it all. Who would not in Venice..
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It is definitely a special city, but it struggles to retain its identity, Gerard.
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Great photos… Really busy day!!
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It was very satisfying, Linda. Bring a coverall with you!
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That picture of the church–you can’t tell where water disappears and sky begins…
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It’s quite lovely in the fog.
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So, this is a working holiday? PS looks a bit spooky at night.
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Yes, non-stop labour! Better than a gym membership, I reckon.
Venice is delightfully safe to walk in, even late at night. I hope it stays that way.
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With the snow falling on your page, it gives a special effect with the fog 😉
Good girl cleaning up that nasty graffiti!
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Argh, and I can’t see that dandruff drifting down.
There were so many willing workers this morning. I was interviewed for a newspaper, I’ll have to buy a copy tomorrow.
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Why should you apologise for camera phone images – they are perfectly valid art form. Venice is beautiful isn’t it? Where is everyone getting this snow app thingy from every time you look at someones photos?
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I don’t mind phone images, either. Venice is beautiful, but the creeping scourge of graffiti is making an impact.
WordPress turns on the snow maker in December, and then turns it off in January, when they realise they have to pay the energy bill!
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I am not seeing snow…there must be something wrong with my version of WP.
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Ahh! Its WordPress snow.
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