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  • The Venice I didn't know existed, with large neighborhood squares and the usual lost tourists peering at their inadequate hotel maps.
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  • Mary in a Venitian neighborhood square on a damp morning.
  • College students on the opposite bank of the canal march to class after brushing by us on the bridge. How young and beautiful and vital they all were. I hated them.
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  • First time in Venice and Mary want to be sure to capture an image of Italian junk mail.
  • Tourists, getting a very expensive water taxi ride, snap their iPads at the lovely Ventian local on the bridge.
  • Our hotel had a lovely garden.
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  • This square near the Rialto Bridge boasts a one-hand clock from an age when close was good enough, The Age of Retirement.
  • The gothic and fragrant fish market.
  • The sky looks artificial in this obligatory photo of the Grand Canal
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  • For those who can't smell and cant read the signs.
  • So many mask shops and stalls but not as many as churches.
  • Kids on a field trip tramp up the Rialto Bridge.
  • "What news on the Rialto?" A view from the bridge. Always for pedestrians only, a bridge has stood at this site since 1181 and the current stone structure since 1591.
  • Looks like a fun fellow but I didn't catch his name.
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  • This reminds me of a wedding cake.
  • Detail. ?
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  • "Ciao," intoned the tall stranger. "Will you help me, signorina, to memorialize this moment in Venice with a photo?"; and immediately she was his.
  • At this point we were suffering serious "ponte" fatigue having had to haul ourselves across dozens and a fellow tourist our age snapped this for us and then cheerfully said, "Remember when we used to embrace for these pictures?" Yes.
  • Even gondolas need an overhaul. Heavy scent of lacquer.
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  • Approaching Venice from the sea.
  • More than one tower in Italy leans.
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  • Approaching St. Mark's. Our ship was so big that it had to empty the swimming pools to give it the clearance needed to enter the lagoon.
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  • This photo of the bell tower at St. Mark's Square was taken from one of our ship's upper decks and gives some sense of how ridiculously tall these cruise ships are.
  • Entry to the Grand Canal
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  • The bridge of sighs.
  • 12th Brigade, Princess Marines.
  • Courtyard of the Doge's Palace.
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  • I believe the statue in the center represents Venice and the others are prominent Venetians and/or past Doges. My wife was particularly thankful that no one asked the guide, "Who let the Doge out?"
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  • I could hear Frank Sinatra singing, "It's quarter to three, there's no one in the palace except you and me..." Yeah, it's a sickness.
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  • From a window at the Doge's Palace. Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore
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  • I couldn't come to Venice and not take a gondola ride, even though it was with two other couples. Our gondolier looked like a professor of economics at a small Midwestern college.
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  • If you've visited Disneyland, you will understand my sudden compulsion to start singing "It's a small world after all."
  • Rialto Bridge and Gondolier, aka the money shot. He looks a bit Michael Caineish here.
  • The gondolier said the house on the far right, behind the vapporetto, was Marco Polo's house
  • Id like to know who all the depicted saints are.
  • This clock at the Doge's Palace gives you the hour and the astrological sign.
  • What does it all mean? I assume that is a nativity scene but what is all the rest? Alas, my religious education is sadly lacking.
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  • The distant Bridge of Sighs as viewed from the Bridge of Yawns by tired tourists.
  • If you would like to view these photos of Venice, I recommend you use the album because these are all in reverse order because I'm still not sure how IP works. Grazie! A small sample of the fantastic glasswork in Venice.