Venice (10 days ago)

OK, now that I can post with pictures, here are the things I saw in Venice that seemed worth sharing.  These are mostly commentary on things we saw involving ordinary Venetians.  We skipped pretty much all the famous sights this trip just to see "ordinary Venice" and actually liked it more than "famous Venice".  I highly recommend staying in Cannaregio -- it's where many regular folks live, has some lovely shopping streets that are not filled with tourists (not empty of tourists, but...  We got really claustrophic when part of our walk took us over the Rialto bridge to the tourist shopping havens; it was wall to wall people, and as you can see, that wasn't true in Cannaregio)

Just a random bridge across a canal which serves as a kind of street.  That's Jay's new hat, bought in one of the sidewalk markets. See how high up the building the water comes (and it wasn't high water at the time)

OK, gondoliers are pretty touristy, but this was at 10am. This is a slightly bigger "canal street".  It has a walking path on both sides.

There are many streets this narrow.

Walked by a random small church (nothing famous) and looked in the open door.  This is what we saw.

Vege market on a slightly larger canal.  This is where real people shop.

View of another vege/random stuff market.

We also had dinner at Covino again this trip.  This is a modern interpretation of classic Veneziano food.  As before, it was excellent.  It's a 3 course, fixed price meal Sorry, I was so busy enjoying the food that I forgot to take pictures.  The meal started with prosecco made by the owner's father and ended with cookies made by his mother.  Really.