As an architect and Italophile I have enjoyed your perceptive insights. Thanks.

Not as bad as Alabama lady yelling out at Anne Frank House, "How could anyone live in this tiny apartment? I could never live in a place like this. If I were these people I would have looked for a bigger place!"

There are some good paintings by Longhi at the Accademia.

And the showpiece, of course, is The Tempest by Giorgione.

Thanks for the report that Prada is empty.

We are here in Texas and Michael Kors is also empty.

Not everyone has a Petra Ecclestone budget!

Take care,
Thin

Eventually the scene cleared, vessel sailed. But it will have cost the cruise line tens of thousands in delays, demurrage, tugs, plus the additional fuel oil burned to get to the next port on time.>>

good.

ironic isn't it that Venice is fuller than ever with tourists, and yet the tradesmen and shopkeepers of Venice are not making money? i have photos that i took on our first visit to Venice in about 1983 showing the Grand canal almost empty of water traffic apart from the odd gondola. What time of year was this?

July.

Out of that 21 m a year, I wonder how many stay over at least one night in a hotel?

Thin

Great report and I am reminded of a long-ago friend's postcard message back in the 1960's: "Saw all the art in Venice today; on to Florence tomorrow."

Maybe they saw the Joseph Cornell boxes at the Peggy Guggenheim and exclaimed, "See the Cornell boxes and die!"


Thin