We had a lovely couple of days in Venice, just wandering down interesting laneways and into doorways that looked inviting.
So we came across the restored Palazzo Grimani (which had an enviable statue room); and, in a former church, a stunning exhibition of gleaming, flying creatures that made music when they moved. We revisited the Acqua Alta bookshop, which copes with floods by keeping all its books in bathtubs, buckets and a full size gondola. In the courtyard out the back we climbed a steppe of ruined books that missed out on rescue in a previous inundation, to peek over the wall into the canal.
We just walked and walked and found more parts of Venice we'd never been to before.
And of course we just hung out the window of our apartment and watched the passing gondolas.
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View from our room, here and above
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Our room
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Two walls of the Grimani's statue room
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Exhibition at Ocean Space in the Church of San Lorenzo
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| Dinner restaurant |
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