After making some 2,000 photos during this Venice Carnevale, I have sorted through them to share with you. For me the costumes weren’t super exciting, though there were two I really liked. But there were the exquisitely beautiful costumes which can…
Carnevale has just 2 days left and I have been making tons of pictures. But I never seem to get that one you see on Calendars or in the magazines. Now I know why. Each morning at daybreak, those professional…
Few things delight me more than snow in Venice. But when you can combine snow and high water in the same day. Well it’s my dream. The 13th of January brought both the first high water, acqua alta, and the…
Venice in its long and colorful history has many mysteries, but one is about to the solved. In about 1172, a good 320 years before America was discovered, the Venetians (Doge Vitale Michiele II) who had helped Byzantium win the…
By all accounts, Redentore 2016 was a success. Recent events in Nice had police on high alert, but other than a few slightly drunk swimmers, there was little trouble to report, which is amazing considering that an estimated 90,000 people…
Security and the shear number of people in line each day to see the basilica has driven the city of Venice to install turnstiles at the entrance of San Marco Basilica along with surveillance cameras. There will be a limit…
Carnevale Venezia officially begins in Venice on the 23rd of January and ends on 9 February, known also as Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras or Shrove Tuesday. Enjoy the official version by Carnival of Venice and then some clips from us.…
Venetians are going to their closets to get our the boots. Rainy weather, high winds and high tides have been forecast for this week. As you can see from the chart above (source: ilmeteor.it) that the tides are every 6…
The Redentore celebration where the Venetians give thanks for the end of the 1576 plague is next weekend. But Venice is suffering from a new type of plague which isn’t contagious nor does it kill but it is annoying. It is…
High water in San Marco ceased to be a rare occurrence in the past years, but rarely does it occur in May. I take it as a special favor for me from the Greek God of the Seas Rivers, Storms,…