We hadn't realized the day after Easter was a holiday, but it was. No boat market, no grocery story, no bank, no post office.
A trash heap, near the boat market. I wonder if those flowers used to be part of a light fixture. They have a 60s-ish look.....
Venice is a good place to be a dog. Not only can you go almost anywhere with your people, but there is no motorized traffic on land. We saw more off-leash dogs there than I've ever seen. Sometimes people had one dog off-leash and another on-leash. I hope that means they are being careful, and are clear that some dogs can be trusted, and some can't. (Any dog who loved to go for a swim might be in serious jeopardy from boats!)
This was when we began to understand that the day after Easter was a holiday. Boat, no fruits or veggies.
Looking down the canal, from the same vantage point as the previous shot.
We walked down the left side of the canal a ways, crossed, and walked back on the market-boat side.
Looking in the shop windows....
Italians make a lot more use of spelt and kamut that we do here in the USA.
My daughter works for a company that cares deeply about purveying only the best. When she recognizes products that her company carries, in a shop, it's one sign that the shop also intends to offer the best.
After so many wet days, Venetians took advantage of a dry day to catch up on laundry.
You've got to have a lot of faith in your clotheslines (and the way they are attached to their supports!), and in your clothespins, to hang your wash over a canal! Anything that falls off is probably gone forever. A vastly different situation from hanging wash in your back yard, where the worst that can happen is a bird hits it, and you have to wash it again!
Love the reflections.....
This next shot includes the bridge I was standing on when I took the previous one.
Flowers! Color!
An unusually long straight street.
A war memorial. So many lost this way, over our long and bloody history.
"Just" walking down four flights of stairs to retrieve fallen laundry is better than losing it in the canal, but it's still no picnic.
More doggers. Note footwear on people. I don't know that these women are Italian, but having a dog or two makes it seem more likely to me that they were. Tennies. And boots.
Laundry!
Our building, from the other side of our canal.
Our apartment. (Given that we had water in our entry, I am wondering about the apartment under ours! It looks to me like their floors must be lower than our entry.....)
One more look at our building, and our street.
Dog, with stick.
Turning right; looking away from the lagoon, up our canal.
Faded Venetian flag. With flowers!
Laundry. Way up high (top left), in the middle, and on a rack on the street.
I hadn't noticed till I got the shot above on "the big screen" that the building near the canal above must be free-standing (rather than attached to other nearby buildings).
In this tight crop you can see that there is a street behind the building with the red bricks, as well as beside it (running farther in from the canal).
More and more laundry.
Standing on the bridge we can see in the "looking up the canal" pic, above. I don't think I saw the cell tower, upper left, when I took the pic.
You can see this canal cuts right through the whole island.
Looking a bit to the left of the previous.
We walked back toward our building, along the canal. The lions, etc, in the above pics are in front of that building in the background, here, with the arch over the door.
This is a public water fountain. This is the way Italy dispenses potable water to the public. Note the round button in the ground, in front, marked "PUSH." Some of the fountains run all the time, and some have to be turned on.
Back on our street. These buildings are across the canal from our apartment, and were a good part of our view from our bedroom and living room windows.
Zoom in on the view above -- big pieces of glass embedded in the wall.
In order to facilitate chronological traversal of these posts, here is a link to the next post.
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