Sunday, December 23, 2012

Un Bellini, per favore

It must be 15 years or more since I last visited Venice - but I was devastated, as I imagine many other people are, to learn that Harry's Bar may well have to close, and certainly will no longer be run by the legendary Cipriani family.  I never actually went in - I reckoned a glass of wine would probably have bankrupted me - but I did stand outside and thought of Hemingway, Welles, Capote and all the other famous names who had passed through those (fairly mundane) doors.  I think, like so much of Venice, they've priced themselves out of the market, but it's sad to see such an icon going to the wall.

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