Italy Pictures; The Full Set

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Mary posing with stuff

Of course when you go on a trip you take pictures posing in front of stuff. Here are some of those kind of pictures.

In Venice late the first day.
In the DaVinci machine museum
On the Academia bridge
Standing in the last of the high water in our $20 high water boots
Outside at the Peggy Guggenheim museum for contemporary art
Again at the art museum next to the only thing in the whole museum that you could tell what it was
At the cafe in Piazza San Marco
On a balcony overlooking Piazza San Marco
In front of a statue thing in a square in Trento
In front of the entrance to the Trento Whirlpool factory
A park in Trento
On the train back to Milan from Trento

The Rialto Bridge

The Rialto bridge is the old main bridge across the Grand Canal in Venice.  It was built 600 – 700 years ago and over the course of the 3 days we were there we crossed it many times. It is marked by big ol arrow thing on map below.

Venice Map Rialto Bridge

Here you have a view of the North side of the bridge as seen from a water taxi.

North side of Rialto Bridge

Here is a picture from the North side of the bridge looking North to where the previous picture was taken.

Rialto Bridge looking north

Here is from the other side of the bridge looking South.

Rialto Bridge looking south

Here is from the south side of the bridge looking down directly next to the bridge.

Next to Rialto Bridge

These are a few of the shops and stands on the bridge.

And finally here is the bridge from a gondola.

South side of Rialto Bridge

This bridge has been kind of a big deal in Venice for a few years.

Venice, No lack of water here.

Although I didn’t have Americano Coffee I suspect it would have had water since Venice was flooded today. It is the season of Aqua Alta or high water and apparently today it was very high. When we got there at 10 it was near high tide and we had to buy boots to get around. Here is a couple of pictures, one blurry because with the rain I didn’t have my high speed stop action camera.

A good 50 yards from the canal

Piazza San Marco 5 hours before this picture was covered with 2-3 ft of water. It floods normally in the high water but normally not that much it seems.

 

Live From Varase Italy

Sever Water Shortage Impacts Coffee Industry
We spent the evening walking the city center of Varase when it was decided that we should have some coffee and whatever they have for snacks. Didn’t  want espresso or capachino so I ordered the great Americano coffee.  Here is what I got.

Untouched, as delivered, Americano Coffee
The water shortage is so bad that only the coffee part of the coffee got delivered. All that was needed was a cup of boiling water.