After almost 23 years in our lovely home, we have decided that it’s time to move on. If you would like more details you can visit the site I have built to display our home — and if you dream of a home in Venice, you will find all the necessary details to book a…
Time and energy permitting, go and visit one of the local markets. The daily food market ‘par excellence’ is certainly that at the Rialto, but you have to be up and about pretty early to see the best of that one, but for a good selection of things other than food, it is worth going…
So excited as the post person brought me some good reading material yesterday! When we first got our teeth into the barge idea a few months ago, I discovered the DBA, the UK based barge association which seemed to offer all sorts of useful advice on all that a barge owner (or potential barge owner…
There is no substitute for being in a boat for these events. I’m sorry — but that’s just the way it is. Maybe you have seen or heard about the Palio in Siena — the famous horse race run in a square in the town centre every year. There is a tremendous build up of…
Compared to a few years ago, the mosquito situation in Venice seems to have improved tremendously. I can well remember my early years here when I would get up in the morning covered in bites with a feeling of great fatigue after a night spent battling with these invisible, though noisy, enemies! Small consolation to…
You may well be asking where there is a connection between a pair of lady’s knickers or whatever you like to call them, and a set of scales. Well I have to say that when I first heard about this store many moons ago, I could hardly believe what the locals told me! Would you…
Contrary to popular opinion, it is not true that every Venetian owns a boat, much as many of them would like to. Just use your imagination a bit and think how many two and three storey buildings you will probably have seen around Venice. Then calculate that every storey probably has at least one, but…
And this morning’s rant is all about these very small Italian homes which require that between seasons we have to do the so-called ‘cambio di stagione’… change of season. All the summer stuff gets put away in boxes or unreachable areas in/under/over the very tall wardrobes, to be substituted with the winter clothing or vice…
Well my exhibition is called more or less that… The plan is to have a map of Venice and from there lots of pics pinned on and around it with tapes joining up various areas of the board … a bit like a police evidence board, a sort of ‘whodunnit’, or in this case, where…