Linda Scandore

• Venice: Day 3
• Weather:  60-80° / sunny & winds 5-15 mph

Maybe it’s because I’m Italian and not because I’m compulsive that I dry my socks matching right and left sock. 

• Venice: Day 3
• Weather:  60-80° / sunny & winds 5-15 mph

What do you get if you toss the crayons from an eight box of Crayola Crayons?  The colors of the Burano  homes. 

• Venice: Day 3
• Weather:  60-80° / sunny & winds 5-15 mph

Avoid shops advertising “Murano Glass Factory” as the pieces are mass produced.  Look for “Murano Glass Studio” where pieces are hand made with blemishes adding to their charm. 

• Venice: Day 2
• Weather:  60-80° / sunny & winds 5 mph

From a distance is the best view of the largest church in Venice, San Giovanni e Paolo. Magnify its splendidness by glimpsing it under a bridge. 

• Venice: Day 2
• Weather:  60-80° / sunny & winds 5 mph

Santa Maria della Salute’s dome dominates the sky.  For more gumption than money I climbed the dome stairs for a spectacular view. The church was commissioned as thanks for preserving Venice from the 17th century plague.

• Venice: Day 2
• Weather:  60-80° / sunny & winds 5 mph

The Seaside Gardens of Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore are a welcome pause from the hordes of tourists in Venice. My favorite tourists today were a couple carrying matching Hermès shopping bags. She had two bags to his one. 

• Venice : Day 1
• Weather:  60/80° / sunny & winds 10-15 mph

By night the throngs of day visitors are gone. We are the staying people settled in for the night. A quartet in St Marks Square is playing the “The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.” 

• Venice: Day 1
• Weather:  60/80° / sunny & winds 10-15 mph

Giorgio Armani, Brunello Cucinelli, Gucci, Chanel, Ferragamo, Prada, Valentino, Cartier, Lou’s Vuitton, Jimmy Choo, Dior are all within two blocks on my accommodation.  Yet walk 50 feet between two blind alleys and with luck find my humble digs in a hidden square.  This is truly Venice. 

• Venice: Day 1
• Weather:  60/80° / sunny & winds 10-15 mph

Though Venice is only 2 and 1/2 square miles, it’s a spider web of canals making walking on land a challenge. Water taxis are the best way to go. I sat in the immediate front of the Vaporetto taxi with a grin on my face riding to my accommodation. I’m here.