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You might also like my new dystopian, Remnants: Season of Wonder. There’s a lot of adventure, romance and soul-searching in that tale too!
Enough with the pitching…I truly appreciate you, River Tribe. You are loved. Life your life to the FULLEST. Gabi and Lia are cheering you on…and so am I.
~Lisa
P.S. The pics that follow are from my last trip to Venezia with my daughter, Emma. Thought you’d like to take a peek! Funniest memory…we took a gondola ride and I almost fell in the canal, trying to get in. Scared the gondolier to death…Most treasured memory: bonding with my sweet daughter from Roma to Venezia.
Here’s Emma, pretending to be scared of a creepy plague doctor’s costume. Physicians didn’t wear these until the 1600s, so therefore, no appearance in DELUGE (bummer, huh?). The long nose was filled with aromatics to ward off the awful smell that often accompanied the disease.
This is the courtyard INSIDE the Doge’s Palace (it’s huge!). San Marco (the church on right with domes) was originally the doge’s private “chapel.” The palace itself is stunning, and has changed a lot since the 1340s, but I found plenty of inspiration for DELUGE here.
Inside the Doge’s Palace…looking toward San Marco.
I was thinking about THIS kind of proximity to the lagoon when I was visualizing Lia and Luca up top, looking over the water…
This is from the top of the basilica, looking out over Piazza San Marco, over which Lia “flew” as the angel…Emma’s looking a tad angelic herself, with the sun in her hair!
sigh The Grand Canal, Emma and our gondolier. It was along here that the Forellis and Bettarinis came down and then entered a side canal to stay with Caterina. Don’t ask me how I almost fell out of a gondola this wide…It was tippy, okay? I hadn’t even had a glass of wine yet.
A mama and her girl…such happy memories! She’s grown a lot since we took this trip in 2011, both inside and out.