Rod Summers in Venice

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Comment by Rod Summers / VEC on March 12, 2009 at 7:40pm

The Bridge of Sighs!

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Comment by vittore baroni on March 11, 2009 at 8:46pm

hi Rod & Liz, wonderful pics as always, you almost passed the audition! I'm deep into my pile of cd reviews, but newt week that will be over and I will finally hear Helgisaga and the other cd you left here. I will react after the experience. Keith Bates accepted to be part of the Don Martin thingie! ciao, dave

Comment by Rod Summers / VEC on March 11, 2009 at 8:39pm

The sun shone so brightly today Liz and me sat on a terrace and had a hot chocolate, thick enough to drink with a knife and fork! Later clouds rolled in and the light became flatter.
Yesterday evening I saw my first rat here, it was swimming across a small canal, I suppose it was swimming as there were no gondolas available, they are all filled with Chinese tourists. Today during our wanderings we were often surrounded by hoards of young teenage school children. Venice is a lively and crowded place. Today during our wanderings we came across a large party of elderly Icelandic tourists, Vikings travel far, still.
One of the things, next to the quality of the light, that is most noticeable here is the stillness because of course there are no cars or trucks here to make a constant ubiquitous rumble. Our house in Maastricht is next to a traffic artery and during the day there are busses, trucks, cars and motor bikes rolling by, not to mention fire engines, ambulances and police cars to contend with when I am making my sound recordings. The silence here is so profound it is almost unnerving, I hear the upstairs neighbour walking about, I hear the blackbird on the roof, I hear the bells of the many churches and I hear the voices of the gondoliers as they gather in the coffee house on the other side of the alley from my front door.
Tomorrow, weather permitting, Liz and I will go to make photographs of the Bridge of Sighs, just off St. Marks Square.
Here is a selection of today’s imagery:

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