Category Archives: Venice

Today is the 400th anniversary of Tom’s Departure

Posted on May 15, 2008 by robhunt510

A picture from Padua’s railway station Thanks Tom for inspiring my walk, changed my life – a little And in other news: the Venice bottom snapper has finally been caught. Normal walking service will shortly resume: I’m writing an academic … Continue reading →

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Tommy in Venice (I)

Posted on August 21, 2007 by robhunt510

“…The first place of Venice that was inhabited, is that which now they call the Rialto, which word is derived from rivus altus, that is, a deep river, because the water is deeper there then about other Islands. And the … Continue reading →

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Is the Earth More Free?

Posted on August 17, 2007 by robhunt510

“…Watch the manoeuvres of the week-end hikersMassed on parade with Kodaks or with Leicas…”Letter to Lord Byron At the beginning of this trip I wrote of W.H. Auden’s poem, “Dover” which caught so well the essential nature of Kent’s port … Continue reading →

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Venice: Had ’em all

Posted on August 14, 2007 by robhunt510

“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices…”Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile If you type “Venice, Loneliness” into the database at the British Library there is one result: Leo Damrosch’s fantastic biography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. If you … Continue reading →

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Guess Where

Posted on August 13, 2007 by robhunt510
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Oh Venice, city of Angels

Posted on August 8, 2007 by robhunt510

Diesel jeans just in case you wondered, are Italian, the owner is from Padua. And is he not happy with the prices in Venice either “Mr Rosso (52), who comes from nearby Padua, said that they had enjoyed the orchestra … Continue reading →

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Betwixt Venice

Posted on August 1, 2007 by robhunt510

“This is a fabulous, extraordinary madhouse. Beams of light shoot down from Baroque ceilings on the masses of earnest morons flinging their money down the drain…” Noel Coward’s diaries, 1954 “I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a … Continue reading →

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Too much

Posted on July 31, 2007 by robhunt510

It is hard, this travel and thinking; uprooted means new experience, but new experience often leads to a realization of how little one knows, or can know – or discover without a library or a university, a circle of people … Continue reading →

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Why Venice and the art thing might seem a little less Europe; a little more "global"

Posted on July 18, 2007 by robhunt510

From Hello magazine online; was the Mantua Times like this in 1608? It probably was: “A West End stage debut can be a daunting prospect even for an actor whose star burns bright in Hollywood. So Orlando Bloom made sure … Continue reading →

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"Millions to dreams" – here’s one to dream about

Posted on July 14, 2007 by robhunt510

“The culture-rich country lacks a major museum for contemporary work, but in Venice, businessman-art collector François Pinault sets out to correct that.” From today’s LA Times. Venice suddenly seems less daunting. A bit.

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