A day in Venice. First we walked around St Marks Square, and the Doge's palace area to get a feel for it. Then through the backstreets over L'Academia bridge and around and about to the Peggy Guggenheim Art Museum. This is the only museum I visited when I came to Venice in 1976. I loved it then, and I loved it now. What is more Rowan and Danielle liked it too. It is the small scale, very high quality, collection that I like, laid out in a quiet backwater that has just a smattering of visitors, no more. We saw Dali, Picasso, Magritte, Bosch, Mondrian, Brach - pretty much every great modern artist, as well as sculptors like Giamcametti and, nearer to home, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. Just great.
Then in the afternoon Danielle suggested we go to the architecture Biennalle which is in a big park to the east of their hotel. Each country has a pavilion and they choose how to show off their skills. This ranged from prosaic Brazil, weird Egypt, wacky UK, austere Serbia to packed and interesting Japan and Korea. It was again not too busy, laid out in a lovely cool park, and just right for us.
We had an evening meal at a restaurant recommended to us by a friend of Danielle's who has a house on one of the islands off Venice. It was a seafood restaurant and it was great. Rowan and Danielle both had baby octopus. I did not. |
| This is Danielle and Rowan at the cafe at the Biennalle |
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