Posts from the ‘Travel’ category

Lost in La Serenissima

So there I am in Venice, standing outside my little rented apartment, seeing something you see almost daily here: lost people. Two of them. English. One,…

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Good Italy, Bad Italy on BBC 4

Italy is going to the polls as I write. Can Silvio Berlusconi really make another comeback? Lord I hope not… If you want to know why…

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Along the Grand Canal in seven minutes flat

If you hop on the ‘fast’ Number 2 vaporetto you can get from one end of the Grand Canal to the other — San Marco to…

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