Last week we went to Venice. It is the city that floats, the sinking city and, in my opinion, the most romantic city in the world.



Yet another ancient gem of Italy, Venice is truly an enchanted place. Instead of roads, they have canals and instead of cars they have gondolas. Over 108 islands make up the picturesque landscape which makes it hard to convince oneself it is not a movie set.





A charming aspect of Venitian life are the thousands of shops that line the bridges and fill the bottom story of antique apartment buildings. Candy shops that overflow with gourmet truffels and bookstores that are brimming with a myriad of texts evoke the sensation of living in a fantasy world, a Willy Wonka meets Alice in Wonderland experience. The chocolate is designed to look like fresh fruit and the books are stacked to the ceiling, a mix of modern and antiquity work.






My colleagues and I were warned by a San Marko shopkeeper that the isand contained many Casanovas and that he actually was one of them. He told us that if women were flowers then we were boquets!

And then we met Andrea. I am convinced he is George Clooney’s better looking, younger brother. Born and raised in Venice he has been working the Gondolas for 24 years. He sang to us, he picked us flowers and he called us ‘darling’. He left us with the advice that to attract or keep a man, we should smile and laugh and omit happiness.


That is all for now! Provenienti da Italia, con amore! - Katie