Venice as Opiate

“Don’t stay too long, then. You don’t want to get addicted.”

I looked at him, caught by the word, as if he knew somehow about the mornings sitting against the Dogana, drifting, the beauty of the place a kind of opiate.

Lines from Alibi by Joseph Kanon, one character speaking to another. Have you felt this way about Venice?

I took this photo many years ago when acrobats performed in the Piazzetta. Dreamy, right?

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