Archive for September, 2010

Venice, Mosaics and Orsoni: three words, one world!

Thanks to Twitter over the last year and half I have been meeting  so many new, fascinating and interesting people which I have lost count of it. But one person in particular I would like to thank for giving me the opportunity to visit one of the most amazing places in Venice, Orsoni Smalti Veneziani, [...]

The Ancient Ghetto of Venice

One of the most interesting, precious and enchanting places in Venice is the Ancient Jewish Ghetto.  As I already said many times before, I always try to go there as much as I can, since it is one of the few places in Venice where really time stands still. I have talked about the Ghetto [...]

Venetian Proverbs, second round

About 6 months ago I wrote a short piece on Venetian proverbs about food, drink and family. Those were only a little taste of a very very wide range of expressions, proverbs and ways of saying which are used in the Veneto region. As I explained in my earlier post, proverbs in our region are [...]