Venice 2018

Venice Lido, Hotel Excelsior. View from seaside.

Beach next Excelsior hotel, Venice Lido.

Hotel Excelsior, Venice Lido. View from street.

Hotel Excelsior courtyard.

Hotel Excelsior courtyard.

Hotel Excelsior lobby.

Hotel Excelsior lobby.

Here starts journey to Venice. Hotel’s dock with complimentary shuttle to St Mark's Square.

Hotel Excelsior, Venice Lido. View from street.

Concerto in Vivaldi's church Chiesa della Pieta. Of course they did play Vivaldi.

Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice - Peggy Guggenheim museum. House full of masterpieces.

Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice - Peggy Guggenheim museum. View from terrazza.

Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice - Peggy Guggenheim museum. Garden and Peggy's last resting place with her beloved Lhasa apsos.

Peggy with her beloved Lhasa apso.

Famous La Fenice opera house.

Famous La Fenice.

Living house of Marco Polo. View from courtyard.

Living house of Marco Polo. Main entrance.

Venice - one of the most mysterious and beautiful cities in the world.
John Julius Norwich has written: "When my parents took me to Venice in the summer of 1946, we stayed only a few hours; but I can still feel - not remember, feel - the impact it made of my sixteen-year-old brain".
This describe suites to Venice very well - you can't only see, you have to feel her.