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Celebrating La Festa di San Rocco
Another mid-summer feast, celebrated on 16 August, and it has a special history: This red baldachin called TENDON DEL DOGE has been waiting for the past couple of days for today’s FESTA DI SAN ROCCO: So yes, summer feasts in #Venice continue throughout August and well into September, and La Festa di San Rocco comes…
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Summer picnic with recipes from the southern Lagoon
August has arrived in Venice, and the Lagoon is as beautiful as always in this strange and unprecedented year. Breathtaking colors and skies, which by mid-August will fuse into something magical, the azure and purple the colors of the “fifth” season (more about that term soon). For now, we’re in the midst of a heatwave…
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The August guide to the Rialto Market
Did you know? Our Rialto Market here in Venice is the oldest market in Europe still located where it was founded. According to legend, on 25 March 421. A market that is paradise, I was told a couple of years ago. But isn’t it dying, I was asked a few days ago. True, during the…
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Late Summer in the Lagoon
September is considered summer in Venice with a bonus: It’s harvest time and the flowers and vegetables in the Lagoon enjoy a “second spring”. That means they are ripe and lush again after the hottest months of the year and the grape harvest, la vendemmia, is taking place.
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Mousse All’Anguria – Water Melon Mousse
When it gets really hot in Venice there are a few possibilities to cool down, I mean culinarywise. One of my favorites during these really hot days called le giornate di solleone is a slice of anguria (water melon). Did you know that anguria grows right around the corner ? The Veneto is the third largest…
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A Venetian Summer Day in the 1950s
In this post we take you back into a world of which many of us in Venice aren’t even aware. Imagine summer without lots of tourists. No cruise ships and a time when Venetians were actually swimming in the canals !! The idea for that post came when I walked along Riva degli Schiavoni and…
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Venessián, the Ancient Language of Venice
Scientists are able to do a lot when it comes to recovering the past. For example, archeologists often succeed in unearthing traces of ancient towns. Botanists explore the plant world of the past. But what about the scientists of language, the linguists? If there’s a language mankind lost, like ancient Greek or Latin, you can never be 100% sure…
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Redentore Culinary Treats
The traditional Venetian Redentore menu consists of several courses, mostly cold dishes for we eat with friends and family and that takes rather long :-) From the late afternoon, Venetians sit outside on chairs before long tables next to the canals. Many stop in the campi, on private terraces or balconies and in courtyards, others along Bacino…
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About Life in Venice: Qui siamo, e qui restiamo
Something beautiful happened in Venice last Saturday. You wouldn’t expect it when you come to Venice during the first days of summer. Last Saturday Venice looked wonderful, all blue skies but some houses, boats and even bridges were decorated with sails. Saturday 2 July 2016 started like those early July weekends I love so much in Venice. When you…