Venice

Bella Italia.
Gondolas and the Grand Canal.
Visited Piazza San Marco, and stood in awe of the ceiling of the Basilica (1094) mosaiced in gold, glass and marble. It houses the body of St. Mark, stolen from Egypt in 829 and four bronze horses taken from Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade.
I was also in Venice during the Lucian Freud retrospective show. You could smell the still wet oil paint in the last few rooms of the now 80 year old figurative artist. Amazing work, and wonderful colour palette in his later paintings.