All that glimmers -Venice
International Traveller MagazineExcerpt
Venice is an apparition in a burst of sunlight under the wing of the aeroplane. It rises out of water on a patchwork of more than 100 Italian islands in the middle of a swampy lagoon on the Adriatic Sea.
There’s an improbable strangeness to this place built stone upon stone, menaced by rising tides, supported by centuries-old subterranean piers and timbers. How can it exist at all?
Everyone wants to see Venice at least once in a lifetime. I am one of them, a former backpacker returning to reconcile faded memories of an embalmed museum piece that, paradoxically, endures still as a living city ofinextinguishable enchantment …