Venice

We headed to Venice on Tuesday to meet up with Jenny for a couple of days.  Venice is celebrating Carnevale at the moment, which involves ghostly masqueraders in costume drifting around among the tourists in their impassive masks - weird and slightly unsettling.

Sunny scene at Santa Maria Novella in Florence where we got some panini for the train. Our first visit to Florence this year!

But the flatlands around Bologna was shrouded in fog

Stepping out of the station in Venice into the bustle of crowds and boats ...

Classic view of the Grand Canal

Reflections - part of the magic

Grand Canal viewed from the Rialto Bridge

Night view

Jenny immerses herself

On the Rialto Bridge

The church of San Giorgio Maggiore looms across the choppy waters of the lagoon, seen from St Mark's Square