Venice is an elusive city.
It has a formal face of grand buildings
built to display wealth and impress the visitor.
It is curiously unsatisfying to capture these images.
Your photographs slide off the polished surface.
You feel that the real Venice is hidden behind a mask.
If you turn instead to the small canals,
and tiny sidestreets,
the markets
bars ,
and osteria
you catch tantalising glimpses of the private Venice
and if you are lucky
an elderly Venetian woman will smile at you from her window.
7 comments:
Sigh.
I'll just add it to my list...
You're back! I'm so glad! It looks wonderful.
Captured so well in just a few short sentences and photos. Yes, there is something odd about that kind of over-abundance of perfection isn't there. Your photos of the man in the shop and the lady from the window were so much more interesting to look at. I hope you had a lovely time! x
Welcome back - it looks so beautiful. Did Mr M enjoy the match? (Or am I misremembering ...)
Lovely photographs of one of my favourite places. It's so easy to see why Venice is an oft used location for films.
Such lovely pictures --- even if they were unsatisfying to take! I found St Petersburg to be similar: the difference between the veneer and the reality. Oh, and canals, of course.
N.
You are so right!
I've never been to Venice, but had a similar experience in Mexico. I found the most interesting and beautiful places were off of the "beaten path."
I think that's an excellent travel goal: remember to go off the beaten path.
Thanks for sharing your trip!
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