that's tripped out
Interesting post. I will check back for more. The limitations to traveling beyond one's "capacity" has been noted in my neck of the woods, too. While I can easily walk to certain stores, banks, etc., some are beyond my need to use the facilities which are not available. The distancing on the vaporettos is more stringent than on the Philly Septa system which increased bus service just today. I am hoping not to have to take the bus anytime soon.
Impressive how most people are following guidelines. We can’t even get people to wear masks in our town, about a 50% compliance rate right now. I wish we had Carabinieri as they take it seriously.
Loved the hairdresser part ...
The writer of that blog, Erla Zwingle, has lived in Venice for years; her home turf is the eastern end of Venice, past Via Garibaldi.
She wrote a great guide book for Venice, published by National Geographic about 20 years ago.
Thanks for this, Kathy. I'm looking forward to reading more of her blog
She is dead on about the immeasurable value of cafe biffies! Trouble is, we just get rid of one cappuccino or beer only to "pay" a cafe/bar for privy privilege by ordering up another! Rinse and repeat, ya know?
When did they put seats inside the vaporetti like that? They look brand new. We were last in Venice in 2015 and always stood in the open area near the boarding gate. I suppose there was a small inside cabin with seats behind that, but it was always too crowded to reach.
That is a fantastic post, conveying what things are like and just how darned complicated every single element of trying to open up while still minimizing the risk of virus spread is.
I don’t think I have read anything better! And then the photographs add another layer.
Brilliant.
Very nice article. Thanks for posting it. It makes the situation more real than anything I have read or seen so far.
read an article recently, maybe in CNN, about how things are going in Venice. One stark comment was how it is only now painfully evident how small the actual population has become, how few people are around to even be out.
The article's main point though was how nice the city is right now, and while they scaled back plans to limit or ban cruise ships, this event has given them time to pause and consider options.
Sadly, I do not think there will be radical efforts to change access, and perhaps that is not all bad, to do anything effective would forcibly limit crowds, and drive up cost to visit, leaving Venice as something of a high cost Disney attraction.
Its already a high cost Disney attraction. Has been for years. But like Disneyland, it feeds a lot of families. Some may like it better if it were like it was 40 years ago, but the mouths it feeds might disagree. Still, very worth dreaming of.
Thank you, Kathy H.
Had a chance to go for first time last year. Local guide said:
Those "feeding mouths" are in other places than local Venice. Though it has to happen at least some(souvenirs,etc) . Probably you can also count "feeding mouths" indirectly by money going to Italy and coming back through as support for Venice.
Probably.
And that's Cruise ships. More support happening from people who travel there and stay for a while.
