Posts Tagged ‘rialto’

A week of sunshine at Lake Garda in Northern Italy … sounds like heaven!! Especially that it’s just a couple of hours away from Venice. So on the 23rd of August, we packed ourselves into the car and drove to the watery backdrop of Hollywood blockblusters. We were especially keen to see if James Bond really had destroyed that building

Marcel and I have been to Venice before, during November in 2000, when it flooded – but that’s a whole other story. Having caught the train there the first time, it was quite cool driving across the bridge into Venezia. We found a car park pretty quickly but gasped at the EUR 26 / day price tag, so thought we’d try to find a different one. Big mistake. The traffic jammed up the further in we went. Read the rest »