Posted by Leo. Here in Venice everything is pretty with
canals all over and gondolas going by. Gondolas are skinny long boats that skim
on the surface of the water. So far I’ve seen many great sights. At a bookstore
there were gondolas used as bookshelves and the door at the back opened up to a
canal where you could sit and read at the water side. But when a boat went by
you got a little surprise.
We went to the Peggy Guggenheim museum yesterday. There were
a few good pieces but I don’t really enjoy art as you know. Compared to the art
in the Uffizi museum it was much more modern with just a bunch of splashes of
paint. There was one painting with a background of red paint and up front there
was blue paint. It was called Red and Blue. I think even a baby could have done
that. The Jackson Pollack painting, called Alchemy, was pretty cool because he
used a different style of painting than other people. He threw the paint on the
canvas that he laid on the ground.
The views of the bridges are amazing and the Grand Canal is
stunning but there are only two bridge crossings. That meant a lot more
walking.
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