Afternoon at the Opera

For our first full day in Venice we planned to visit the Biennale in the morning and then go to an opera in the afternoon. First, we needed breakfast.Our room was on the first floor, above the main floor. Here the ground floor is floor zero, the floor above is the first floor. The main floor opens to the canal on one end and a walled garden on the other. You leave through the garden on foot, you leave by boat through the other. Rowboats are stacked on one wall. This dark, old brick hall is filled with local art. Beautiful, old-fashioned oil paintings of Venetian landscapes are accompanied by abstract paint-scapes using the same colors. 400 years of art history in a diptych. Nearby are lovely 19th-century neoclassical portraits. I would have given my teeth to learn to paint this way in school.The room where breakfast was served was just off of this main hall. The room is an office and common space during the day, for the sort of boring traveler who hangs out in their hotel all day.…

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