While making a travel plan, I decided to stay 3 nights in Verona, then I will take a train from Verona to Venice. I’m ok with one hour and half in route, after Venice I’ll go back to my hotel in Verona, and if I like Venice very much, I still can go back the next day.
I didn’t go back to Venice the next day! Yesterday, I was so exhausted with the crowd of visitors in Venice, and it was not the high season! Venice is unique, very photogenic… People gave different names to this old town – City of masks, City of bridges, City of canals, The Floating City, the Love’s Holy Land…but I would call Venice as “always-overcrowded-old-town-on water”
I want to see Venice in its daily routine life, free of the crowds of tourists.
I arrived to Venice around 8:30 in the morning, the city still in good sleep, very few tourists wandering around the town. I did enjoy a freshly quiet morning, a rare peaceful moment in one of the greatest towns in the world, freely taking photos at any hidden corners.
No map, I just followed people, going through tiny alleys, passing by very old houses, sometime I decided to take another turn, to let me get lost in the middle of nowhere or even stuck in a dead-end. I’d love to show you a Venice still in sleep, when almost no one on the street-canal, on the bridge, super calm alleys, totally deserted, I did enjoy this moment in Venice.
Venice still in sleep…
Some early birds…
Only boats, bridges instead of cars and bikes…in this unique city.
The canal instead of the backyard
The reflection of the building on the mirror-like canal
The tiny passage between the old naked houses
A souvenir boutique in an old house…
Can’t imagine how to find the right address in this very easy-to-get-lost town.
I was surprised when seeing so many small, narrow alleys as a maze, I really had no idea where to go, I just followed the crowd, if there was no one, I followed my instinct, no care wherever I could be heading, I also saw many tiny tiny boutique hotels in very hidden secret corners, I was wondering, how to find them if we are the first-timers in Venice!
This boat stuck in this narrow canal? Nope – just a parking lot
I was the only soul in this deserted passage…
Rarely to see someone…it was already 10:00 am!
The peaceful moment along the canals…
Unbelievably quiet neighbourhood…
Houses very expensive in Venice, even this one could cost you a huge fortune…
It was quite warm morning in mid September, these pigeons enjoy a morning bath
Sitting on a bench, I was counting how many windows…on this building.
Time to go to school for kids, I guess!
Bridge after bridge in this city – big, small, old, new, bricks or wood…
Venice sited on a group of over hundred of small islands, separated by the canals and connected by over 400 of small, big bridges…the water was not very deep, I was told over 1m-1,5 m deep but it could be higher during the high tide. During the low tide, it could be a problem due to the unpleasant smell from the canals.
Not easy to walk around Venice without map, happy to find this simple wooden bridge
or another wooden bridge next to a lovely house in Venetian style
Wondering this is front or back of the house – should be front!
The contrast of colours, the architecture, the water reflection make Venice so photogenic
House painting quite interesting here – only in hot colours…
or just naked wall with red bricks…
Wondering when was the high tide, the water could rise up to…which level?
These guests were probably waiting for water taxi
First saw only the instrument lonely on the ground, then came the musician – ready for a new day!
Venice’s young inhabitant in Sunday morning…
I did enjoy a short peaceful moment in this incredible town, but later, around 10-11 am I was horrified by a number of visitors coming to Venice. The crowd getting more and more, bigger and bigger, whenever I tried to capture something, someone uninvited will appear on my camera. That was the end of my joy, my pleasure of visiting Venice. I was unable even to move among the crowds and it was mid September, not high season! So I decided no more walk, I take vaporetti – the water bus! Will be back with another side of Venice!
Le petit renard 