VENICE, ITALY |
Photos © Ruud Leeuw
The first time I visited Venice was with my parents, must have been aged 10 or so; that would be around 1965 or 1966. PAGE ONE | PAGE TWO |
Having landed at Marco Polo Int'l Airport, we purchased our Actv waterbus passes and we walked to the nearby The Hotel Belvedere on Lido; the view from our room facing the main islands of Venice.
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One of the main reasons for me to visit Venice this year was the Henry Cartier-Bresson retrospective exhibition. ![]()
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CAMPI, CALLE e CANALI![]() It is a great joy to walk the labyrinth of small streets; the few crowds that existed were easily avoided here.
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BOOKSHOPS @VENICEOne theme of this trip was 'book shops'. I had made a list of some to shop for photobooks and some titles. Unfortunately I found quite a few closed, because of that awfully long midday closure and one for the owner on vacation.
We tried to find the book 'Il Pecorone' by Giovanni Fiorentino (Italian or English), but no such luck.
Dutch daily newspaper De Volkskrant had an interview in Dutch of Donna Leon, by Sander Pleij (09Oct20). |
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Created: 03-Oct-2020