Venetian Spritz
Aperitivo Select,
Prosecco, sparkling water,
a citrus slice and
a few ice cubes -
Cin cin!
"Row home? must we row home? Too surely
Know I where its front's demurely
Over the Giudecca piled;
Window just with window mating,
Door on door exactly waiting ... " *
"Oh, which were best, to roam or rest?
The land's lap or the water's breast?
To sleep on yellow millet-sheaves,
Or swim in lucid shallows just
Eluding water-lily leaves ... " *
Images
© by Merisi
*) Quoted from
Robert Browning's
poem "In a Gondola"
*
Why Venice?
Why now?
It's all Carol's fault:
Instead of offering Paris Breakfasts,
lately she has been taking me to
the most beautiful places
and up and down the canals
and calli of Venice,
making me long for that fair city
more than ever.
Click yourself over there -
here ->Paris Breakfast does Venice,
if you dare! ;-)
Bon viaggio!
In the morning of life,
when its cares are unknown,
And its pleasures
in all their new lustre begin,
When we live
in a bright-beaming world of our own,
And the light
that surrounds us is all from within;
Oh 'tis not, believe me,
in that happy time
We can love, as in hours of less transport we may; --
Of our smiles, of our hopes, 'tis the gay sunny prime,
But affection is truest when these fade away.
Quoted from Thomas Moore's
"In the Morning of Life"
Images
© by Merisi
Photographed
April 2010
in the 13th District's
Roter Berg neighbourhood
Repost
Ein Kleiner Brauner
Espresso coffee, served the Viennese way
on a silver tray with a glass of water
Café Diglas
Wollzeile
*
Images and Text
© by Merisi
Easter Surprise
Demel's Shop Window
Kohlmarkt
*
Images and Text
© by Merisi
Lilac Flowers
Photographed on
19 April 2011
walking from the
U6 Metro Station
towards Burggasse
7th District
*
Images and Text
© by Merisi
Early Birds
While the city
slowly wakes from slumber,
St. Francis is already
multitasking
Graben
Paglia di Vienna *
Still all quiet
at Ballgasse
Franziskanerplatz
Gavin, this one is for you, **
I left it extra large,
just click on it *)
Liliengasse
Clip-clip go the scissors
at Herrenfriseur Giehl
Morning Reader
In the right spot
at the right time
Singerstrasse
*) Cane seating?
I remember Paglia di Vienna
from Rome, but still don't know
how the Viennese
would call it.
**) Dear readers,
may I invite you to visit
Gavin Plumley's blog "Entartete Music"?
He generously shares his
immense knowledge and insight
about music, visual arts, literature,
notes from his travels,
in short, anything he writes about
is a pleasure to read.
Enjoy!
*
Vienna on the morning
of 9 April 2011
Images and Text
© by Merisi
The best Strawberry Napoleon ever:
Crème pâtissière and
Zauner's superb pâte feuilletée has nothing in common
Did I mention that the strawberries
