How will we live together?

by Rashmee

Posted on June 5, 2021


/ FAITH, HOPE… The Venice Architecture Biennale, which began last month and runs to …

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Donna Leon’s ‘Acqua Alta’ paints a pretty good picture of high waters in Venice

by Rashmee

Posted on November 13, 2019


I was at work today when I read about Venice under water, its walkable streets …

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For the love of #Venice, don’t go there. Head to Trieste instead

by Rashmee

Posted on May 5, 2018


I visited Venice last April (some of what I wrote at the time is here…

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Two amazingly similar views of Venice: from April 2017 and the early 1700s

by Rashmee

Posted on September 3, 2017


To continue the theme from an earlier blog on Venice, a modern city that’s …

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A cheat’s guide to Venice. Oscar’s 5 easy tricks to avoid queues & other things

by Rashmee

Posted on September 2, 2017


Here’s what I learned in three days in Venice. By the way, I went in …

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Were gondoliers and gondola-makers of yesterday’s Venice the coal-miners of America today?

by Rashmee

Posted on April 17, 2017


One of the last gondola workshops in Venice is to be found near the Ponte …

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It’s worth visiting world’s first ghetto, where the very word came into being. Especially now

by Rashmee

Posted on April 14, 2017


If you’re visiting Venice, look away for a few hours from the beauty of the …

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Venice may be only city in which centuries-old paintings remain hyper-real today

by Rashmee

Posted on April 13, 2017


The truest line ever written about Venice may be from Peter Ackroyd’s biography of the …

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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK