In Venice in Sestiere Dorsoduro

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Walking along the Zattere on my first evening in Venice, I was taking this picture from the Ponte della Calcina. A woman, an employee of the hotel, slipped into the frame and stole a quick look up the canal. Who or what was she looking for? A white-haired gentleman strolled toward the Zattere looking at these boats. Not everyone who lives in Venice can have a boat, I was told. You have to inherit one. The flowers in this window on the Zattere with the setting sun on the cracked walls caught my eye. The "front street" of the hotel where I stayed. This is the view from Chiesa dei Carmini toward Hotel Pausania (Sestiere Dorsoduro). Peaceful Evening Rio di San Barnaba at the Hotel Pausania "But pungent canals keep Venice from getting too bijou." -- Cadogan Rusty pilings beside the Ponte de San Basegio are reflected in water the color and opacity of jade. "Venice is not sinking!" I was told, "...It is the sea that is rising." The front steps of these houses on the Canal Grande go directly into the water. Green House with Pink Geraniums Opposite Campo della Salute, Sestiere Dorsoduro Rio de la Tolette Sestiere Dorsoduro Boats bring frruit from the outer islands into Venice. This fruit and vegetable boat is on the Rio di San Barnaba a few steps from my hotel. I had cherries and nectarines every day. I had to have a picture of the gondolas. I snapped this while hanging over the edge of Vaporetto No. 1 in the middle of the Grand Canal looking towarrd Ponte di Rialto. This carved stone set in the doorway of the Chiesa di S. Maria della Visitazione (on the Zattere) stopped me in my tracks.