Saturday 26 December 2009

CHRISTMAS CHORES

How did you spend Christmas Day? For these Venetian shopkeepers it was a day for sweeping-out and mopping-up after an exceptionally high tide (60" or 145 cm above sea level) on Christmas Eve...

Mopping-up I

Mopping-up II

Mopping-up III

Mopping-up IV
Staff at Etro were not in evidence, but the reflections of their mannequins is not in the polished marble of the floor, but in the several inches of water swimming around in the showroom...

Flood

Of course, not everyone was occupied with the flood. Most tourists carried on enjoying themselves regardless...

Christmas warmer

5 comments:

SharonM said...

Love the scarf pin, Buttons. And I hope that you and David are going to eat all that cream and keep Brian away from temptation.

scb said...

Good grief -- hadn't thought about high tide in Venice...

Whatever it is Buttons is drinking looks fabulous! Ask him to have another one for me, please/thanks!

Suzanne said...

My Christmas day was drier and much more relaxed than that, thank you! Hope your hotel was dry too!Have fun and a wonderful new year!chesseal: a hot drink concocted with all the fluid leftovers from Christmas lunch

Brian Sibley said...

SHARON M - If you knew how much that small glass of hot chocolate cost, you'd know that there was zero chance of the rabbit getting his nose anywhere near it!!

SCB - For the Venetians it is all part of daily life: one of the downsides of living in this extraordinary city. Another glass of chocolate? Not without a serious bank loan...

SUZANNE - We are in an apartment and, fortunately, on the second floor!

Jen said...

What a beautifully presented drink, beats a paper/plastic cup any day.

BUCKIEST: substitute an 'L' and that's what Buttons is