Rode 3 different vaporetti today around the entire cittá:

started and ended at the Grand Canal after circumnavigating

(take that, Christopher Columbus!) entirely each of the two halves 

of Venice that are bisected by the GC.

It was almost cold enough to prohibit enjoyment, on the boats 

or off, but we rallied/sucked it up, and made a day of it. 

There is lots of sheet ice in the lagoon, crusted around the

buoy pilings, vaporetto stop shelters, beneath Gondolas. 

The boats cut through it easily, but the thickness and quantity of it 

is a testament to just how cold it has been here, unfortunately, 

since we arrived.

Found the warm and cozy Taverna San Troviso 

for lunch and wine in Dorsoduro, walked home after.