Partners Velvet Escape showcase Venice as a special travel tip. This is where the author likes to escape to, feels at home, knows intimately and feels comfortable in. Nevertheless, the ‘floating city’ also enchants, intrigues and excites. Now, does this sound like your normal travel destination? And would you not like to feel this way too about a place you’re planning to visit?
Typical Venice ‘street’ scene. Image by JoeDuck
The words used to describe Venice range from enigma, strange, exotic, romantic, familiar, old, modern, formal, laid back, celebrated and misunderstood. Is Venice all these or just appears like some of them to different individuals? Perhaps even to the same person who’s visited several times? The city certainly seems to reveal different facets upon alternate visits by the same person.
And of course it’s different when you visit at increasing ages, stay in either hotels or rented rooms, meet people that have also changed with time; then you perceive things in alternative ways. That can be said of most places, even walks in the countryside seem different depending on the time of year, even the time of day depending on light conditions or direction travelled. So much more applicable to a complex and intriguing place like Venice then.
So, like well-versed travellers everywhere, the author decided to copy the locals – after all they can most efficiently negotiate life between the canals! And new discoveries, like a farmers market selling wine from the islands in Venice’s lagoon, enhanced the experience and made the picture both more complete and complicated at the same time.
Some of the priceless ‘Venice tips’ include renting an apartment (vs staying at a hotel), going for early morning walks and moonlight strolls along the back canals, and shopping for fresh produce and seafood at Rialto Market before 9am.
Our own suggestion is to also take time to visit some of the obscure but interseting Venice museums.
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