Two Friends

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington 

Music

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato 

Rialto Market

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
Douglas Adams 

Campanile

Not a picture of mine for a change, but an image made by Isa,  my sweet partner in crime, a true addict of our Venetian meanderings.

Sitting at San Simeone Piccolo

Sitting on my own not by myself, everybody's here with me
I don't need to touch your face to know, and I don't need to use my eyes to see
I keep on wondering if I sleep too long, will I always wake up the same (or so)?
Cat Stevens

Colours

“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. ”
 John Ruskin

Mimmo plays de Blues

Mimmo Raia, di Napoli, nice and funny, plays his classical mandolin on top of the Rialto Bridge. Blues and Rock n'Roll, Jazz and italian songs too. A cool spring night, good mood, people singing along. Thanks Mimmo ! 

Spritz Time

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.  
Luis Buñuel

Città

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
Italo Calvino 

Vaporetto

vaporetto  (ˌveɪpəˈrɛtəʊ, Italian  vapoˈrɛtto)
— n  , pl -ti , -tos
	a steam-powered passenger boat, as used on the canals in Venice
[Italian, from vapore  a steamboat]

Piazzetta

"White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Venice"

Pane

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul.”
John Muir

Sail in the Venetian Lagoon

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
Franklin D. Roosevelt 

A beer at Chet's

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Frank Zappa 

Dawn

I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn.
David Hockney 

Buonanotte All'Italia

Buonanotte all'Italia che ci ha il suo bel da fare
tutti i libri di storia non la fanno dormire
sdraiata sul mondo con un cielo privato
fra San Pietri e Madonne
fra progresso e peccato
Luciano Ligabue

Pigna

"It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone."
Erica Jong

Parsley

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)

Cinema Paradiso

Alfredo: Living here day by day, you think its the center of the
  world. You believe nothing will ever change. Then you leave: a
  year, two years. When you come back, everythings changed. The
  threads broken. What you came to find isnt there. What was yours
  is gone. You have to go away for a long time... many years...
  before you can come back and find your people. The land where you
  were born. But now, no. Its not possible. Right now youre blinder
  than I am.
Salvatore: Who said that? Gary Cooper? James Stewart? Henry Fonda?
  Eh?
Alfredo: No, Toto. Nobody said it. This time its all me. Life isnt
  like in the movies. Life... is much harder.

Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988)

Squero di San Trovaso

"Sur des pensers anciens, faisons des vers nouveaux"
André Chénier