Piero Dri depends on the millions of tourists who come each year to his home city of Venice. Yet he admits to already feeling “suffocated” by the foreign visitors who are gradually returning after an enforced absence.
“Over the past year Venice went back to being liveable,” he said from his workshop near the Grand Canal, where he hand-crafts wooden forcola — oarlocks for the gondolas that ferry tourists around the city’s waterways.
“With the streets emptied because of the pandemic, we realised we didn’t have to fight tooth and nail every day to get around, and that we could live our lives loving this place.”
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