Venice is one of the most visited cities in the world, and the type of place we sometimes avoid for that reason. This time Ton told me that we really needed to visit as she had very fond memories from a trip with her mother when she was in college. We were lucky to visit during the off season as the crush of tourists you hear about so often was not that bad. One of the days the city was experiencing the Acqua Alta high tides that floods St. Marks Square. Unfortunately the week after we visited Venice experienced catastrophic flooding that inundated 80% of the city.
October 17, 2024 Polesella IT
We had a decision to make last night about where to go next. We had pretty much wrapped up the places we wanted to see
October 4, 2024 Verona IT
It was raining when we took off to visit Verona. It looked like we may get a couple of dry hours mixed in with scattered
October 3, 2024 Verona IT
Well the rain we took a day off to stay out of showed up in force today. There is a large storm going thru Italy
November 5, 2019 Vicenza IT
Today was a maintenance day. Our campsite is less than 100 yards from the main shipping channel for Venice port so we began the day
November 4, 2019 Venice IT
After a wet and windy night we woke up to sunny skies with a touch of fog. The bet we had made on the weather
November 3, 2019 Venice IT
As planned we moved to the other side of Venice to a campground that was open for the whole time we are planning to be