Back from Italy

I got back home yesterday after a few days away with my wife. We took a short trip to Lido di Jesolo, a beach resort in north-east Italy, that she had said she would like to visit. The resort is very much built for tourists – it’s mostly hotels and the restaurants, cafes, and shops that serve the visitors, but it’s clean, friendly, and a nice place to spend some time. It has a very long beach – over nine miles in length – which is equally clean (it has a Blue Flag rating) and with lots of public facilities such as cafes, bars, and showers. It also has thousands of sun-loungers and parasols, with many of the resort’s hotels having their own reserved section of the beach.

The resort is also only a short distance from Venice, and it’s easy to catch a bus and a ferry to the historic city – a trip of approximately an hour from the bus station – meaning an abundance of culture and history is there should you wish to partake of it. We visited Venice on the second day of our trip, and here are a few pictures from the day out.

I’ll be posting a bunch of photos from the trip once I’ve got them processed and scanned, but in a break from tradition (given that this blog is advertised as being about film photography) I’ve dropped a few digital photos into today’s post. I don’t intend to start posting digital photographs on a regular basis, but I’ve decided that sometimes it might be apt. Because I often have a backlog of film pictures to develop, scan, and upload, it can often be many weeks before I get to post them. Using some digital pictures now and then will allow me to better illustrate the posts where I witter on about what I did that day with actual images from the events, rather than some random unrelated film photo I took weeks earlier.

Ricoh GR III.

Taken 5 and 6 May 2023.