The Venice Experience

Happy New Year to all!!!  I want to wish everyone a healthy and happy 2011!!!! Here in Venice there is a great celebration about to kick o...

The transfer from Ospedale to Fate Bene Fratelli in Cannaregio may very well have been one of my most Venetian experiences ever.  It was sch...

When my surgery was scheduled originally, I was told I would be in the hospital 7-10 days, then have 3 weeks of rehabilitation. So I had pre...

If you have been keeping track of Venice weather, then you know we have been having a run of Aqua Alta. Last night at midnight the water wa...

I don't remember a whole lot of November 16, but what I do remember needs to be recorded here. I was having full knee replacement su...

It's been over a month, the worst is behind me and I am home recuperating. I had no access to my computer the entire time or I would h...

I'll be checking into the hospital here in Venice on Monday morning, and having my knee replacement surgery Tuesday morning. It's no...

I happened across this "toilet" the other day and just could not resist snapping a photo and putting it here on my blog. Yes, you ...

It's no secret we've been trying to learn to speak Italian, and making slow progress. I know, it doesn't seem possible that we l...

I get questions every day from people I meet --- Why did you do it? What's it been like? Do you regret moving? How could you give up y...