In Venice …………….. at the unfashionable end

Now, I just love other people’s holiday pictures, especially when the memory of our own holiday is fast fading along with the suntan.

So yesterday our Luca landed in Venice, on a journey which will take him by degree to Florence, Rome and Pisa, although I am not quite sure the order in which he will wash up in each city.

Still, like our other kids, there is always an expectation that the holiday pictures will make their way home to Chorlton.

Once they would have come in the form of a commercial picture postcard, which like as not would arrive long after the holiday was over.

But now with technology, the pictures arrive soon after they were taken, leaving me a vicarious collection of images, along with pondering on the death of picture postcard.

Still, on his way from the airport he encountered the canals which I grant you is not surprising, given that this is Venice, but if there were gondolas and tourist out on the water, they weren’t at this spot.

Instead, here was one of those industrial waterways, used more by the people of business than a representative of the tourist trade.

And that was perfectly fine, reminding us that there are a lot of canals the tourist never sees.

Location; Venice

Pictures; Venetian Canals, 2019, courtesy of ALTO•VISUAL