The Glass Island

Since I wrote about Burano a few days back, I must write about Murano, the other populat island on the Venetian Lagoon. Murano is clearly visible from anywhere in northern coast of Venice. It is a short 10 min boat ride from Fondamente Nove stop with numerous services available round the clock.

This is the view of the island across the canal, Rio dei Vetra, where my ladies went on a mega shopping spree and I sat down lazily by a cafe, sipping through cappuccino after cappuccino and was having a time of my life watching people (only a few people) and watching sunset!

Here is my cappuccino and I can tell you that this may not be the best cappuccino of my life in terms of taste (but it was rather good), but when I combine the relaxing experience where I was mostly stationary for about 2 hours (yes, two hours!), I would say that is near perfect experience! Why being stationary and drinking coffee is good? If you insist I must show you Peppa Pig!

Anyhow, as I was drining my fifth cup of cappuccino, I saw them come out on the other side, and go back again!

Bless them! You might think the entire island is a retail burnout, but it is not, although my writing might let you believe that. It is not. The island is home to many glass making artisans who produce rather amazing glass artifacts. The most interesting thing is that they let you see how they are making the glass.

In this glass factory, the artisans are rather young, which is a great thing to observe. I don't like to see a form a art that is dying, rather see an art that is thriving. Here they are putting a piece of a glass vase in the furnace and re-shaping and decorating it.

However, static images do not do justice to this process, and I don't have a good enough video. However, there are impressive videos of this on youtube.

I really like this one. It shows you how hard the process is:

I love this still from this video, with which I will end this post.