Not a holiday, on the 2nd! Hooray!
From here you can see that this is the end of the canal, and that Via Garibaldi (which was canal, once, before they filled that part of the canal and built a road) begins on the other side of the balustrade just beyond the other end of the boat.
Lunch! At least four lights on this glass (though the fourth is dim -- its shadow goes straight down, in this pic).
Recording winy impressions.
A look at the ambience. Comfortable, personable.
This was taken moments after I realized we were in *Italy* and they might have olive oil for bread, rather than butter. See what's on our table?
Mmmmm.
This was my very yummy bean soup. I love bean soup. I could eat it every day. Well, almost every day. In cold weather. I believe that was radichio on top. Definitely not onion.
Also yummy -- pasta with crab and tomatoes.
I was informed that tiramisu is native to the area around Venice, so we ought to have some. Tiramisu is generally not at the top of my list of desserts, but this was really good.
Here's what happens when two digital cameras are pointed at the same object, and one of them tries to focus on something dim while the other is taking a pic.
When present-day cameras try to focus in dim light, they will emit what appears to my eyes to be a red light, to help them get a bead on the objects they are being asked to look at. I am surprised that the other camera's "red" light looks so yellow/orange to my camera.
We had coffee with our tiramisu. I would eat again at Mascaron, any time.
A very long straight street.
Lots of glasses frames for sale in Italy. I still think they would make an excellent souvenir.
I thought this was really cute, and wondered what it was, when opened up. (if it's hard to see, it is fabric that was folded into a long rectangle. Then the rectangle was rolled up, lengthwise, into a cylinder. With a cherry on top, wrapped in cellophane, with a bow.)
I got home and googled it up, and found out it was a shopping bag. I was sad that I hadn't priced them, since I use fabric shopping bags all the time, but then I tried to watch the video on the website, to find out just how big a shopping bag. It was incredibly slow to load, so I didn't sit there and watch each little segment as it loaded, and then it wouldn't replay, so I never actually saw it......... The bags looked pretty small, from what I could tell, and I didn't especially like the printing on the bags. So I am not sad any more. Cute concept, excruciatingly cute presentation, not so sure about the actual functionality.....
More interesting detail on buildings.
This is Santa Maria Formosa again. We saw her last night.
More interesting pull-only doorknobs.
Flower shop!
In order to facilitate chronological traversal of these posts, here is a link to the next post.
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