"A Christmas without snow, tinsel, or tree,
at the edge of a map-and land- corseted sea..."

J.Brodsky  "Lagoon"
(translated by Antony Hecht)

     I was very impressed by description of winter Venice. Winter for us, Russians, is characterized by snow, but there is rarely snowing in Venice. Winter in Venice means a fog and "alta aqua" ("high water"). At that time peoples walk on especial planked footways, and a fog is so dense, that every walker leaves after him "a corridor" in the fog, which keeps almost during half an hour.