Venice Travel Guide
Price Check: a Venice Shopping List
We usually take our prices for Price Check from the local supermarket, or supermercato, regardless of what things cost at the local market or mercato, because supermarkets generally provide a better yardstick for comparing prices ...
Our Home Away from Home in Venice
We’ve become the people we’ve always envied, sipping glasses of Prosecco at the windows of our Venetian palazzo as we survey the action on the Grand Canal down below. People crammed on the vaporettos that ...
Venice’s Grand Canal: A Timeless Time-lapse
We're in Venice! And our 'home' for two weeks is a 17th century palazzo on the Grand Canal. While we normally begin each series of posts on a new place with a review of our ...
Train Travel and Taking Time Out for Reflection
Train travel. We’ve always loved it – as much for the opportunities it affords us to sit back and simply reflect, as for the chance to people-watch, as well as take in scenery you don’t get to ...