True VenetianCappuccino e Brioche
Espresso with frothed milk,
married to a cornetto - croissant,
perfect Venetian breakfast
Sipping one of the best Venetian cappuccinoswhile your gaze wanders through the glass door,
past the Riva degli Schiavoni and the aquamarine sea,
resting on the horizon,
where the island of San Giorgio Maggiore
rises slowly out of the morning mist
and then you travel backto the Schiavone banks,
where Venice turns to royal blue,
ready to glide through the day,
ever La Serenissima,
in scintillating finery
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Photographed
August 2010
Images and text
copyright by Merisi
How nice to see some pictures of Venice :-)
ReplyDeleteGlad you are enjoying them too,
ReplyDeleteI needed some sights,
a bit of breathing space,
beyond my cluttered desk!
Dear readers:
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To a wonderful week and beyond,
Merisi
I wish I could visit Venice again soon!!! Hace a nice week!
ReplyDeleteThe gondolas remind me of the croissants...
ReplyDeleteLove these three...
xxx...
Love the boats and water.
ReplyDeleteMerisi, what a nice surprise to have this excursion to Venice!
ReplyDeleteThe reflection photos are a pleasure to explore, and your comment about the chair stretching its legs made me laugh.
Happy Monday!
Love the last photo.. the colours are amazing.
ReplyDeleteColores,
ReplyDeleteat least, we can dream in the meantime! ;-)
Paris Breakfasts,
you do notice details, don't you?
I am dreaming of a croissant ride in Venice now! ;-)
Charles Gramlich,
ReplyDeleteit is always a glorious moment right after the sun comes up and her rays reach the gondolas at Riva degli Schiavone, nature's light show right there.
Charles Gramlich,
ReplyDeleteit is always a glorious moment right after the sun comes up and her rays reach the gondolas at Riva degli Schiavone, nature's light show right there.
Frances,
ReplyDeleteglad you enjoyed the dream! ;-)
Hilary,
ReplyDeleteI almost did not believe that I could capture the gondolas against the blinding light coming straight from the east.
Beautiful images of Venice! I love the unusual one taken through the glass door and I've been trying to read the back to front sign!
ReplyDeleteI really like the light in the last photo. Beautiful images. I can never see enough photos of La Serenissima.
ReplyDeleteYour images sparkle like Ventetian glass.
ReplyDeleteYour images sparkle like Ventetian glass.
ReplyDeleteGondolas are the most elegant boats -- they seem to float atop the water rather than plowing through it.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Linda, Loree and Acornmoon! :-)
ReplyDeleteVicki Lane,
I agree wholeheartedly!
When I wrote "ready to glide through the day" I was thinking of Venice itself moving through the day like a gondola, con eleganza, never plowing.
I once knew a poem about "Phoenicians" - those great ancient mariners - moving about the seas swiftly and elegantly. I have been searching for that poem for years now. All I remember is that I read it on the preface of an ancient history textbook, written by an Italian female archeologist at a New York University. I copied it on the backside of my diary back then, but even that has disappeared in the vagaries of time, discarded or lost during moving.
Ce matin nous prenons un café "fait maison", mais nous regardons la première de vos photos, pour avoir l'arome et le goût de Venice... Quel plaisir!
ReplyDeleteWhat delightful photos! Captures the magic of Venice!
ReplyDeleteThat brioche looks more like a croissant than a cornetto. Which was it?
ReplyDeleteSpacedlaw:
ReplyDeleteIt was definitely a cornetto, even though I heard several customers asking for coffee and brioche. Cornetto is cornetto is brioche, any way you name it. ;-)