Category: Travel
A cup of coffee
In Bologna.
Old friends
Bacchiglione
As it winds through Vicenza. Taken from the Ponte degli Angeli.
Ponte dei Gesuiti
“ENGLAND”
At the base of the Campanile. San Marco Square, Venexia.
Piazza San Marco
Bar caffè
This is from the Ponte dei Dai, looking at the Calle dei Fabbri. Piazza San Marco is the brightly lit bit at the end of the Calle. I’ve never been able to find the name of Bar Caffè, other than the sign.
The Cobbler — Friulane Dittura
Calle Fiubera, 943, 30124 Venezia VE
Gondolier and smartphone
Laughs at a Venice kiosk
In Cannaregio, at the Rio Terà Frutariol and Rio Terrà Santi Apostol.
San Marco Twilight
Scene from a Movie Not Made
At the vaporetto stop for San Giorgio Maggiore.
Guidecca experiment
An experiment in Lightroom. Guidecca, from San Giorgio Maggiore. I like the almost charcoal drawing quality.
Guidecca canal
From the campanile of San Giorgio Maggiore.
“Mist”
“Mist” — an installation at San Giorgio Maggiore by Jaume Plensa for the Biennale.
Vaporetto Bosun
Palazzo Ducale drapes
El Cuor No Se Vende
“The heart is not for sale.” Graffito on the Rialto Market.
Fishing
On the Fondamenta Ormesini. Taken from across the Rio della Misericordia from a seat in the Ghimel Garden restaurant, in the Ghetto.
Waiting for the vaporetto
Talking in the Campo dei Gesuiti
Mother and daughter
At the Campo dei Gesuiti, Venexia.
Iron Halos
The Hangtown Fry
At the Wandering Goose, Seattle.
The origins of this dish go back to the California Gold Rush. Placerville, a town in the Sierra foothills, was also known as Hangtown. A gentleman, flush with gold, came in to a restaurant and allegedly said, “Give me the most expensive thing you have!”
The result was this: Oysters, pork belly, soft-boiled eggs, all on top of a bed of potatoes. At the time, it was the eggs that were regarded as the true extravagance.
Hong Kong at night
Tin Hau Temple
In the Yau Ma Tei neighbourhood of Hong Kong.
“Mussolini”
Not that I ever called him that to his face. But his jaunty swagger, bullet shaped head, and rough-but-hilarious talk made the parallel inevitable. He was the clear king of his domain, a street restaurant in the Temple Street Night Market. Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong.
Xiàngqí
Assyrian bas-relief
In the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK.
Belfort
In Bruges.
Madonna and votives
Michelangelo’s Madonna, in the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk (Church of Our Lady) in Bruges.
An Angel Speaks to Mary
At Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk. I love the conspiratorial look of the Angel.
Church in the fields
In France, from the train.
National Museum of Ireland
In the Archaeology building, at Kildare St.
Behold the Lamb!
While we were eating at the Yemen Cafe in Brooklyn, they received a delivery from their halal butcher. I started making a picture or two, and this fellow noticed me. I love his pride.