Lightning strikes Venice
I don't think I've ever seen lightning up close before. You might not guess that it is rather shiny.
No. I wasn't hit by lightning, though when I was on the bus, crossing a bridge, I could see the lightning and it was pretty darn close. It looked like it was hitting some of the smaller islands. And it looked shiny. I felt empathy for the poor folks in the airplane flying below cloud level -- the plane was obviously headed towards the airport and lightning was cracking all around it.
Today was much better on the shopping front. I only bought one thing and it wasn't glass! I now am the owner of a lovely, small Italian leather purse.
I'll be sad to leave Venice tomorrow (I'm heading to Bologna), but my cash flow will greatly improve. It also helps that I'm going back to hostelling again.
Yesterday, I walked around (more) and went to the island of Murano. Murano is the center of the Venetian glass-blowing industry, and if I may say so myself, I exercised considerable restraint. This means that what I bought wasn't for myself.
I also stopped at the cemetery (well, the vaporetto did, so I hopped off). It's not as interesting as I might have imagined an Italian cemetery might be. Though, it was the most flower-filled of any cemetery I've visited.
In the evening, I rode the vaporetto through the Grand Canal. Very beautiful. Very romantic (pity that I wasn't in the company of a lovely Italian...). Walked around the main island (really, set of islands) for quite a while, then vaporetto'd back. I managed to take some really cool photos (including a couple in black and white and sepia), and I'm quite pleased with them. Venice at night really lends itself very gracefully and beautifully to black and white photography. It also helps that my camera does beautifully in low light situations -- the photos I took would never have been possible with a flash.
So anyway, a light rain continues to fall and I'm debating on whether or not to go back to the city (I'm staying in a Venice suburb) and search for Harry's Bar. The write in me says YESYESYES, and the tiredness in me (I walked around for several hours today and I have not had a nap...) says SLEEPEARLYSLEEPEARLY!
All I know is that I'm going to Bologna tomorrow, and Florence pretty soon thereafter. Oh yeah!
No. I wasn't hit by lightning, though when I was on the bus, crossing a bridge, I could see the lightning and it was pretty darn close. It looked like it was hitting some of the smaller islands. And it looked shiny. I felt empathy for the poor folks in the airplane flying below cloud level -- the plane was obviously headed towards the airport and lightning was cracking all around it.
Today was much better on the shopping front. I only bought one thing and it wasn't glass! I now am the owner of a lovely, small Italian leather purse.
I'll be sad to leave Venice tomorrow (I'm heading to Bologna), but my cash flow will greatly improve. It also helps that I'm going back to hostelling again.
Yesterday, I walked around (more) and went to the island of Murano. Murano is the center of the Venetian glass-blowing industry, and if I may say so myself, I exercised considerable restraint. This means that what I bought wasn't for myself.
I also stopped at the cemetery (well, the vaporetto did, so I hopped off). It's not as interesting as I might have imagined an Italian cemetery might be. Though, it was the most flower-filled of any cemetery I've visited.
In the evening, I rode the vaporetto through the Grand Canal. Very beautiful. Very romantic (pity that I wasn't in the company of a lovely Italian...). Walked around the main island (really, set of islands) for quite a while, then vaporetto'd back. I managed to take some really cool photos (including a couple in black and white and sepia), and I'm quite pleased with them. Venice at night really lends itself very gracefully and beautifully to black and white photography. It also helps that my camera does beautifully in low light situations -- the photos I took would never have been possible with a flash.
So anyway, a light rain continues to fall and I'm debating on whether or not to go back to the city (I'm staying in a Venice suburb) and search for Harry's Bar. The write in me says YESYESYES, and the tiredness in me (I walked around for several hours today and I have not had a nap...) says SLEEPEARLYSLEEPEARLY!
All I know is that I'm going to Bologna tomorrow, and Florence pretty soon thereafter. Oh yeah!
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