Venice, Day 20

Venice's fish market.

1. The fish market is outdoors, huge and clean, fish and other seafood of every kind you can imagine piled on ice. Smells like fish and the sea, as you would imagine
2. Wandered past some workshops where they were making masks today. There are a lot of cheap, generic masks for sale in Venice, but in places like this they're works of art. I wonder if they're busier this time of year because Carnival is coming up?
3. Peggy Guggenheim museum, for a modern art fix. What a collection! I always love seeing someone's private collection. I got postcard reproductions of three of my favorite works to put on my bulletin board at home: Pablo Picasso's On the Beach, Rene Magritte's Empire of Light, and Joseph Cornell's Setting for a Fairy Tale.
4. A lot of interesting noise in Venice today, with someone playing piano inside one of the old houses along a tiny canal we were wandering down, a soccer game at the stadium down the way from us with cheering and singing (lots of singing), an Italian family arguing loudly inside one of the buildings we passed on our walk to dinner
5. And speaking of dinner, the food here is, of course, amazing, lots of seafood prepared various ways. My favorite's with homemade pasta. Ridiculously delicious