Feasting in and on Venice

[selenak]

The photobucket app worked once more, and thus I can present more Venetian impressions, of buildings and literati, for your visual delectation as well.



Here's one way to start the day: on the fish market near the Rialto:



or you could, you know, just go for some little canale appreciation:





This is how Venetians open an international festival of literature:



Multi media reading of the Syrian poet Adonis, see report in earlier post:





Michael Ondaatje and Linda Spalding, hungry in Venice:



...and then getting feasted in Venice along with the rest of us, in this place:





Now was that a buffet worth waiting for? Have a look at the other rooms:





Observe the detail:





This is where Robert Browning lay in state:







The view to the Palazzo Grassi on the other side of the Canale:



And a nightly Rialto wraps it up: