Venice Archive - Sketchtraveller

Torcello greets me every year

28.09.22 28.09.22Travel

Autumn is here. How can you tell? Because I go to Venice and Torcello. I do that every year now, but this year everything was quite different. It started with…

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…

Torcello – The Calm Before Interesting Times

04.06.19 18.05.22Travel, Urban Sketching

Nearly a whole year I was looking forward to go back to Torcello. To be up front about it the island is dreamlike even in wind and rain probably because…

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…

Sketching – How it began

04.06.17 11.11.21Travel, Urban Sketching

Like so many other people I am the victim of a strange teaching method in a strange school system. After primary school I had two drawing lessons once a week.…

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