Category: Blogs and Blessays

Baccalà mantecato is one of the most ancient and typical of Venetian dishes. It’s lovely, it’s creamed cod and it’s a major part of the selection – you can see it’s 3rd and 4th and perhaps 5th down the line of bar food.

As Luciano Pavarotti said the morning after the fire, “La Fenice was a jewel and architecturally the most beautiful theatre in Italy” Fenice means Phoenix ~ ~ ~ Twice, it has risen from the ashes, like the Phoenix – what’s in a name, indeed

My guy dropped me off at Marco Polo airport. He had other places to go, so I went it alone. Someone’s got to celebrate my best brag, living 2 hours from Venice, might as well be me. Took the ferry and found it surprisingly warm with all the body heat. First night was drizzly, yet…

Not an obvious choice but a terrific monument to see when visiting Venice. The Palazzo del Bovolo was chosen by Orson Welles as one of the main locations for his 1952 adaption of Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’. If you can’t visit Venice this year, you can certainly watch the movie.

Allot to take in. And, whenever I listen to these interviews, to these guys from the CIA, the National Security State, etc – whenever I hear them talk truth I wonder, “and when did ‘you’ first realise you were working with Satin” But I do appreciate the truth tellers. Many of us are curious and…

meanwhile on Garda; calm with a soupçon of warmth

Alexander Dugin has been called ‘Putin’s Rasputin’ and Pepe Escobar is a Brazilian journalist and geopolitical analyst. This conversation is worth a listen as Pepe is perpetually traveling the globe, including Russia, Euroasia and the Middle East. He’s attending all the meetings, not the think tanks. Dugan’s ideological slant is obvious, but he’s also there…