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 …
Read MoreDonna 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 …
Read MoreFor 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…
Read MoreTwo 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 …
Read MoreA 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 …
Read MoreWere 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 …
Read MoreIt’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 …
Read MoreVenice 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