Tag: Venice

The entrance of the Arsenale is across a small bridge over a narrow canal. Officially the canal is closed to traffic, if not for any other reason that it is too narrow and the bridge too low for most boats. Most of the navy people guarding the entrance don’t mind our passing under the bridge,…

The entrance of the Arsenale (the navy docks) in Venice is guarded by two huge lion statues, the most beautiful and majestic animal statues I have ever seen.

Ambulance speeding down the Canal Grande – whenever you here a siren there you better move out of the way. We later saw the ambulance at Campo San Barnaba, where they picked up a little boy who was hurt, but not more than he could walk on board the ambulance and there was no siren…

There’s a speed limit of 5km/h in Venice, for all private motorized vessels. This seems to have missed that memo, though.

A few photos from a 6am paddle yesterday morning.

I often tell people that if they get too playful when we’re kayaking, and forget to take the traffic in the city seriously, but on these photos, taken at 7.30 in the morning at a very low tide, it does look like I’m wrong.

Gondoliere wearing SeaSpecs kayaking sunglasses. What will be next? Red and white striped Kokatat Knapsters?

This is how they put up scaffolding in Venice.

This photo almost looks like a painting. It gives me the feeling that I’ve seen it before, or maybe I’m just paddling too much around Venice.

Venice is full of hidden stuff, much of it in plain view 🙂 I wonder if this guy will ever know what’s under his feet, or even just suspect there might be something.

It’s the first time I’ve seen SUP boards on the Canal Grande. They seemed to do well when I saw them, but I’ve heard some of them ended on the water at the Rialto Bridge, which is often a busy spot.