I Took 150 Pictures Today

I Took 150 Pictures Today
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The pictures I'm attaching now are those from early this morning. I wanted to take pictures in morning light so I set the alarm for 7. I crept out into the world of working venetians. It was lovely beyond words. Venice is filled with streets that are barely passageways. I can reach out to touch both walls at once in the majority of these. Look up and you see balconies lush with flowers and, remarkably, weeds growing out of some of the cracks.

These run at every crazy angle and meet up with wider roads that you could actually drive a car on (if Venice allowed cars). Eventually a bunch come together in piazzas, small piazza's (campinos) and almost room sized squares (can't remember the name). If you are trying to get anywhere specific with a deadline, good luck. This morning I started walking and got utterly, wonderfully lost in about 8 minutes. I carried a map but many streets have no names painted on the walls (Venetian street signs) or named on the map. Really, it was only good to remind me of where the apartment was.

I wandered past beautiful old churches. Every 50 meters is another tiny bridge over a canal and a beautiful view. The houses really face the water, the real working roads.