The vaporetto stop was very close to our Venice apartment. We bought tickets from a machine, and got on the vaporetto (which, conveniently, was right there).
We are now seeing things from the water that we had walked by, on shore, for days.
We've seen many of the things in this image before.
We've stood on land, by that horsey statue, looking this way toward San Giorgio Maggiore (which is behind us, at the moment).
The Doge's Palace, the Libreria Antica, and San Marco's campanile.
One last look at the piazzetta -- from right to left, Doge's Palace, scaffolding on San Marco, clock tower, white pedestal with green version of San Marco's lion on top (that's the one we saw with the gull on his head, several days ago), red flagpoles, campanile, Libreria Antica............ And gull.
Looking into the south end of the Grand Canal, with Santa Maria della Salute, top left.
Same subjects as the previous, but a different perspective, as the vaporetto moves right along.
Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore, commonly known as Il Redentore, (according to Wikipedia -- between Google maps [satellite view, with labels], and Google search, and Wikipedia, it wasn't hard to identify these big churches seen from the boat).
Santa Maria della Salute, from the back.
Appreciating the sartorial splendor of our fellow passengers. This guy's glasses frames were the same color as his pants. I wonder if he has a lot of different glasses to match his outfits, or if he always wears orange clothing, or if some days his orange glasses match his outfit, and some days they just complement it...........
One last look at Venice. Santa Maria del Rosario, commonly known as I Gesuati.
I have enjoyed doing this writing and research. I have learned the names of lots of things I saw, but didn't recognize. Now I can recognize them and name them..... My knowledge has been expanded and solidified......
No pics of the train station. We bought tickets -- at the second machine we tried, because the first didn't take cash. Which we only learned at the very end of the process. The people behind us in line told us to just use a credit card already. Sorry. I told them our credit card wouldn't work, because it was American, and they said "Look. American companies! Visa! Mastercard!" I told them it was because the cards themselves were deficient, not having the chips in them that let European machines use them, but I don't know if they understood. In any case, we got out of their way, so they could use their European cards to buy tix for wherever they were going.
We found a machine that did take cash, bought tickets, and took the next train for Bologna, which left in less than half an hour. We'd gotten a last-minute recommendation for an interesting restaurant, but given that we had all the luggage, we decided to just go, rather than trundle back out.
We are on the train now. Here is the bridge which connects Venice to the mainland. It's relatively new, considering Venice's long history....
It doesn't look like a dwelling, does it. It seems like this basic design could be a cool little beach house, with all that open (deck?) space on the second floor, and all those "windows" downstairs, facing the ocean..... In reality it's full of air conditioner or something, and all open to the exciting view of the bus stop and the train tracks.............
The land is very flat, near Venice.
And very green. All of that rain is making plants very happy.
Some things are green (or orange) no matter what the season (or the precipitation).
Note flowering shrub! It's starting to be spring!
I'm not sure why this looks "not from the USA" to me. Partly the yellow. Italians like yellow and orange way more than most people from Michigan do. The tiny car. The chimneys -- lots of them, on a pretty new building, and they aren't brick....
The thing that looks the most different to me about this one is the top of the chimney. And then the orange....
And the tile roof, which I didn't notice in the previous image! Not like Michigan, for sure, though there are lots of tile roofs in the southwest of the US.
Yellow, again. And I'm not sure we'd see that peachy beige here, either....
Did you notice, in the background of the last few pics? Hills!
Not so flat any more. I wonder what sort of place this is. All of the buildings seem new.
Closer to Bologna -- this building does not seem new.
I did not see one leaf on one grapevine the whole time I was in Italy. Not even in Tuscany, where it was warmer.
I wasn't trying to take pics only of yellow houses, honest. I think there are just that many yellow houses!
Flat land again. On a really nice day!
I don't think I'd want to live cheek-by-jowl with this............
Fields, and more nice yellow houses.
In order to facilitate chronological traversal of these posts, here is a link to the next post.
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