I can hardly believe I have been in Venice for over eight weeks now, how time has flown! Just the last week connections I have made with people are coming to fruition & I am getting invitations & I know some people well enough to ask them for a coffee or a drink.
Last Saturday I rang Jane. She & her husband have an apartment near to me & they come out alternate Fridays from London for a long weekend. I rang to see if she would like to have a coffee after Church the next day & she agreed that would be lovely. Jane then asked what I was doing – going over to San Giorgio to look around the Cini Foundation. O George has gone for the boat, we’ll give you a lift & drop you off.. It was a renovated 1950’s speedboat, seats were white leather trimmed with red, it was beautiful & how amazing to be sailing down the Grand Canal in a private boat! Jane joined me on San Giorgio but there was a conference going on so we went for a coffee & chat instead. We did also go out Sunday & then I went to look around their apartment. We have arranged to meet again next time they are here.
Monday night after the Circolo meeting a Croatian/American lady asked me to join her to look at a sculpture exhibition nearby & then we went out to dinner & exchanged telephone numbers. Tonight I am meeting another lady from Church at the stand up wine bar for a drink.
John-Henry & Marilyn (Vicar & wife) had a pancake party on Shrove Tuesday & I took Joyce & Jennifer along. They have a tiny, three story house & I am very envious they have a hang out of the window washing line! Perhaps it is as well I don’t have one I may fall out. I am always amazed at those over canals & wonder how much they loose!
Music and visitors have played a big part in my life this month. I have more than managed at least one concert per week and there has been a great variety. The Opera at the Palazzo of course & with Joyce & Jen we went again to La Traviata. The highlight of their visit was going to La Fenice Opera House to see Gonoud’s opera Romeo & Juliet.
I have been to the Venice Jazz Club several times, both with visitors & on my own & the people are very welcoming. Saturday night I went to a concert of 15th century Venetian music played on instruments of the time & there were also some poems set to music. I am afraid I found it rather repetitive. I have several more concerts lined up for March.
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