One of the most valuable journal techniques for travellers - taken from
Kay Adam's "Journal to the Self" is the "List of 100". It's a great way
of capturing the essence of a place, even if you are very pressed for
time. Like many other journaling techniques, the very act of writing
something down will help you to recall other facts that you thought you
had forgotten. (And you don't have to make it 100!)
On the ever-interesting "Armchair Travelling" Yahoo list to which I belong, members have been sharing their lists of things they love about differnt places. Here's my "list of 100" about You-Know-Where....
Will you share your own lists - long or short - with me here, about your own favourite places?
100 Things I Love about Venice...
Adoration of music
Ancient beads
Balconies
Beadwork
Bell-pushes
Billa supermarket
Blinds
Brickwork
Bridges
Campaniles
Canalside lunches
Carpaccio's story paintings
Carved oar-hooks (rowlocks) on gondolas
Chandeliers
Coffered ceilings
Conversations of bells in the evening hush
Courtyards
Crass remarks by the "cream" of tourists - rich and thick!
Crowns-of-stars
Dark and twisting alleyways
Dolls
Door knobs & knockers
Embroideries
Exquisite pastries
Fanlights
Fashionistas
Flickering church interiors
Fresh Fish
Fresh fruit
Fresh Vegetables
Gay guys in a gondola - blissfully happy
Gilding
Gondola prows against glittering water
Honey coloured evenings
Jewellery
Lace
Leathers and feathers
Leatherwork
Lions
Love of performance
Love of Theatre
Madonnas
Marbling
Martyred saints
Mask makers
Mosaics
Mozarella
Music in Piazza San Marco
Musical cherubs
No litter
Ogee windows
Oleander
Olive oil
Pampered cats
Paper, paper, paper!
Papier mache
Pasticceria
Pearlescent dawns
Peeling paint
Polychrome marble
Pomegranates
Pompous waiters at Quadri's
Posing gondoliers
Posing old men
Posing young men
Precious doggies
Puppets
Quirky chimneys
Relics
Respect for hand crafting
Rough bread
Saintly niches
Seaweeed covered steps
Snow white napery
Sottoportegas
Sparrows
St Sebastian
Stand-up coffee time
Stripey poles
Sweet red tomatoes
Terracotta roof tiles
The "other-ness" of the Ghetto
The lap, lap, lap in the quiet dark, as a night-time boat passes by
The swirling of pigeons
The tiniest glass treasures
Tiny shops with jewel box interiors
Titian's blues and reds and golds
Travelling by Vaporetto
Votive candles
Walking in the rain
Water fountains - bird baths!
Waterfalls of pelargoniums
Watergates
Waxworks
Well heads
"What-now"-ing upon the Rialto
Window catches
Window dressing
Window grilles
Wooden shutters
Wonderful!
A glorious list, Roz. What is/are sottoportegas? Your list makes me dream, imagine, and fantasize. Also great for artwork imagery!
Posted by: Loretta | November 12, 2006 at 01:25 PM
How fantastic. Lovely photos Roz.
The list of 100 things is a great idea and one I will remember when we go to Portugal in February. xo
I'm not surprised to see sweet red tomatoes on your list ;o)
Posted by: Sheila | November 12, 2006 at 02:59 PM
A dream of ten years realized by my trip to Ireland in September:
Avoca
Arched bridges
Barmback
Bodhrains
Bookstores filled with Celtic lore
Brown bread
Celtic crosses
Celtic designs
Cobblestone path
Conversations in pubs, on buses
Craic
Dublin
Dublins painted doors
Galway
Galway oysters
Glendalough
Green
Haunting rivers
Hills of Ireland
Irish sweaters
Kilkenny
Kinsale
Lilt of language
Mist
Moss
MUSIC
Mystical
Pubs
Pints
Sacred stones that speak of history
Sheep cavorting on hills
Smoked salmon
Stories
Posted by: Marti | November 12, 2006 at 04:20 PM
Wonderful list. I think you had an advantage tho with all there is to choose from in Venice.
I'm going to have to look at my little neighborhood through the eyes of a visitor and see what I can come up with.
Posted by: Darla | November 12, 2006 at 05:47 PM
Wonderful List Roz and I enjoyed all the photos. I use that journaling technique often when pressed for time but wanting to savor the day before it comes to an end.
Posted by: carolyn | November 13, 2006 at 04:37 AM
I haven't done a list of 100 for a long time; thanks for reminding me. Your photos and your list makes me long to visit Venice myself. If I get into Europe again in this lifetime, it's Florence I want to see more than anything. Have you read The Passion or Atemisia? I'm nearing the end, and I'm finding it fascinating.
Posted by: Fran aka Redondowriter | November 16, 2006 at 04:11 AM
Pleased to be back on the net...to see all those treasures you're sharing with us.
Thank you!
Posted by: Marie-Noëlle | December 06, 2006 at 10:00 AM
I made the same photo (the last one) in Venice six days ago :))) Ca' d'Oro, isn't it?
Posted by: Malgosia | October 05, 2007 at 07:32 PM