Venice in February...

Sure, it's a bit cold, around 10°C this morning, but there are relatively few people here, streets are quiet, vaporettos have light traffic. Add to this clear skies, sunshine and no street fairs and no outdoor concerts.

See photo right of a deserted Venezia from last year.

Speaking of Venice, we were lent a DVD of "The Italian Job" by someone who thought we should see the Venice scenes. Venice did look great in the film..but it has to be the dumbest film I have ever seen. Add to that, the worst actor in the world, Donald Sutherland, is in it. The plot is idiotic, the characters cardboard, the dialogue laughable. It is an action film with unlikely, actually impossible, action scenes. Dumb, dumb, dumb. 

For a Venice movie, try "Brideshead Revisited" (BBC) or "Death in Venice". Having mentioned Mr Sutherland, the movie "Don't Look Now", based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier, does visually capture the beauty, mystery, and charm of Venice, despite having the aforementioned actor as a star. The story of the movie makes no sense but it is a lovely look at Venice.