As long as we are talking hearts, flowers and romance this week, what could be more romantic than a gondola ride in Venice? One of the things I love most about Venice is the tiny canals that meander through it. You can’t really see Venice if you don’t get into some kind of boat and [...]

If you don’t recognize this photo as the top of St Mark’s Cathedral in Venice then perhaps you need a longer zoom lens on your camera. The whole story of Venice deciding that they needed a better patron saint and going to Alexandria in Egypt and stealing the bones of St Mark tells you a [...]

I have always liked this picture of Piazza San Marco taken looking down on it from the campanile on the square. I loved the black and white nature of the scene offset by the brightly color umbrella of a vendor selling food for the pigeons.
Except on the one occasion where I saw Piazza San [...]

The bridge of sighs is a well known Venice landmark. This is the bridge that the prisoners crossed between the palace of the Doge and the courts on the right to the prison on the left. The name comes from the sighs that the prisoners made as they got the last view of Venice… at [...]

VeniceHotel.org has a great feature for those traveling to Venice in the very near future. It has a forecast for which days will have the biggest crowds. I assume they are predicting this using bookings at hotels in the area. The only catch is that the forecast only goes out for 21 days. But, for [...]