piazzas and back streets

this is the square I walked across every morning after ingesting as much coffee as humanly possible at the hotel breakfast buffet in order to start functioning like a vaguely competent musician. We'd walk across here to the waterside and then up to the Pieta...wiping sleep from my eyes and seeing Piazza San Marco before the tables were out and the day had a chance to warm it.

Then we would return, often after midnight, when the weather was too cold for all but the most hardy tourists and the mist was settling down over the canals.