How to benefit from historical Venetian cuisine in our time When you first come to Venice, can you make out a special culinary style of this city that differs from other regions in Italy? For example, Rome is famous for specialties like pasta cacio e pepe and spaghetti carbonara. The Italian region Liguria is well-known for their delicious and refreshing pesto al basilico. And the Veneto, or ...
When I last passed Fondamente Nove in a vaporetto, I noticed a group of pupils and their teachers at work on the stone barrier beneath, collecting garbage like rotting bottles and plastic bags, abandoned just where the path gets rather narrow just east of the Ospedale stop. There are those initiatives in Venice, spontaneously organized…
The event I’m telling you in this post happened three years ago, in mid-April, so the pictures show you a Venice in which spring has made more progress :) This is the story of a visitor who stayed at Lina’s hotel. On the second day of his vacation, he approached Lina and said: “I’m done…
Finalmente primavera! Venice looked like this on the first morning of spring! We are all enjoying bright lights, so different from the pale sun barely illuminating Venice during the first few weeks of January. So this is what you would have seen today, arriving at Stazione Santa Lucia. And there’s the smell of new grass…
