Italy Archive - Sketchtraveller

Who will certainly not get on my nerves next year on Torcello

11.11.21 13.11.21Travel, Urban Sketching

Autumn changes things on Torcello. There are fewer visitors, which may have something to do with the change in the timetable of the vaporetti. The last few years there was…

Venice In Autumn

11.11.21 14.11.21Travel, Urban Sketching

With Venice in autumn during the week before Halloween, I expected damp days, dull light and mystical wisps of mist creeping slowly from the sea over the canals and through…

Venice in the Time of Corona

10.11.21 14.11.21Travel, Urban Sketching

I didn’t dare tell you in 2020, let alone write it, but I was in Venice that year too. No one could remember when there had ever been so few…

Palladian Odyssey Umbria – 2019 (Tour 1)

17.06.19 17.06.19Travel, Urban Sketching

In 2018, we talked about a sequel of the Palladian Odyssey, but I thought this would not happen during the next two years. Therefor the offer for a tour in…

Florence With a View And An (Indecent) Offer

03.06.19 28.12.19Travel, Urban Sketching

For a city like Florence, this will be a short post. In 2012, I visited the town for a rather extensive sightseeing trip. This year I have only stayed for…

Advent In Verona

27.12.18 08.04.19Nativity Scene, Travel

Opera lovers will know the annual summer festival in the arena of Verona and may have been there at least once. It is not unusual to visit this northern Italian…

Trieste

07.09.18 10.08.20Travel

I take the strain of travelling because I love to be somewhere else. Going as Viennese to Trieste gives you sometimes the impression you haven’t left home at all. Between…

Torcello – Sacred Tranquillity

04.06.18 13.11.21Travel, Urban Sketching

Between the 9th and the 13th century the most important centre in the north Adriatic lagoon was on Torcello. It was a see with prosperous trading houses and craftsman’s business…

Is Visiting Venice A Good Idea? – Update

03.06.18 28.12.19Travel

In 1995 I visited a performance in the La Fenice opera house. I didn’t come back to Venice until 2017. Can a place famous for looking as in olden days…

Palladian Odyssey 2018 – Tour 1

02.06.18 10.09.18Travel, Urban Sketching

Apart from travelling to the penguins I fulfilled myself another dream this year: a sketching tour. Initially I wanted to go to Venice. I found a German travel operator for…

Milan

01.06.18 03.09.18Travel, Urban Sketching

On my way to the Palladian Odyssey 2018 I made a stop in Milan. I have never been to Milan or Padua before, therefor I didn’t know in the beginning…

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