Niccolo Tommaseo

My name is Niccolo Tommaseo. I was a linguist, a writer and an Italian patriot. But do you know how some Venetian people dare to call me?

Spritz

Aperol (or Campari), Prosseco, aqua... A Spritz for you, my friends!

Molino Stucky

A massive building on the Giudecca island, facing the Giudecca canal and the Dorsoduro. It used to be a flour mill. Built in 1895 by the Swiss Giovanni Stucky, it closed in 1955 after a history of economic crisis for the company. The "molino" is now a luxurious hotel, the Hilton Molino Stucky Venice.

Bacino Orseolo

Rigt near Piazza San Marco, past the Procuratie Vecchie, this large artificial pool is one of the main locations where gondolas are parked at night. A very busy place in the morning, when tourists begin to rush in for a gondola trip.

Partito Democratico

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston Churchill

Meeting Place

Campo Santa Margherita is one of the most animated places in Venice. Day and night, young people, students and tourists like to gather here to take some rest, meet people and have a drink, either in one of the many bars of the campo or more casually sitting on the ground as young people of all countries like to do.

Evening by the Canal

A glass of italian wine, some good friends, and the evening light on the Grand Canal...

Ghost Gondola

Swift and silent, the gondola glides over the smooth mirror of the water.

Police

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
George Orwell

Corte Sconta

Another "corte sconta", a place of calm and serenity in Venice...

Images of Venice

The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
Ezra Pound

Clouds in my Coffee...

You had me several years ago when I was still quite naive
Well you said that we made such a pretty pair
And that you would never leave
But you gave away the things you loved and one of them was me
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and...
Carly Simon

Amphibious Delivery

In this car free city, big delivery trucks arrive every morning on canal boats...

Light at the End of the Tunnel

From narrow streets to wide campi... From darkness to glare!

Canale di Cannaregio

This large and very busy canal links the Canal Grande to the north east of Venice (Fondamenta San Giobbe and Fondamenta di Cannaregio). On the left corner are to be seen San Geremia church and the baroque Palazzo Labia.

Sunday Walk

Wandering through the maze of the city, lets discover places, streets, bridges and canals...

Inspiration

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso

A Shaded place

Parks and gardens are not many in Venice. And it's always a pleasure to discover a nice and quiet place so nicely shadowed.

The Delivery Man

Beginning of the afternoon. Time for the delivery man to go back to the wharehouse and moor the boat. This kind of work starts at dawn. So let's call it a day.

Piazzetta

Evening Stroll on the Piazzetta.

And I'm proud to show you some beautiful interpretations our Australian friend Shell Sherree made frome some of my pics :

Morning Promenade in Castello And Shell Sherree's

Some steps on the Piazzetta And Shell Sherree's

Welcome Home And Shell Sherree's

Lunch Break

Time for a break, in one of the nice little outside cafes that you can discover in Venice as long as yo get out of the beaten track.

Summer in the City

Hot town summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk hotter than a match head...
Written by Mark Sebastian and Steve Boone, and is forever associated with The Lovin' Spoonful.

The Gondoliere

Like a dancer, on one leg, graceful and casual...

Blinded by the Light

Yeah he was blinded by the light
Cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
He got down but she never got tight, but he's gonna make it tonight
Blinded By The Light - Bruce Springsteen
Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.

Later in the day...

After Santa Maria dei Carmini we stopped for a while in Campo Santa Margherita. When we arrived in San Barnaba the day was ending.
I remembered these words of Jean d'Ormesson :

J’ai beaucoup aimé travailler. J’ai aussi beaucoup aimé ne rien faire. J’ai surtout aimé partir, aller ailleurs, me promener, le nez en l’air et les mains dans les poches, à travers le vaste monde.

I'm sorry to give it in French. I would not want to rashly translate the poet.
But I'm sure that, among my dear visitors, an english-speaking and cultured mind will do it for us.