Visiting Venice on a Budget

Venice Best Kept Secret.... a €2.00 Gondola Ride!

If you visit Venice for the first time, a gondola ride is probably on the top of your bucket list. The biggest problem is that a regular gondola ride can cost you up to €100.00! Yes, that much...

How to Travel from Venice to Ljubljana (2025 Guide)

Venice and Ljubljana are only about 240 km apart, which makes it easy to visit both on the same trip. Many travelers enjoy Venice's canals and atmosphere before heading to Slovenia's capital and...

5 Great Novels set in Venice

Have you ever thought about researching your next trip to Venice by diving into a novel? Of revisiting a trip you have made through the eyes of an author (especially now when we can't travel)? Here...

Romance in Venice, 8 Reasons Why You Should Take Your Beloved to Venice

AH, 2020 how many things have it ruined? How many events cancelled? How many things that we couldn't do… 34 days and we are welcoming 2021 hoping that everything will be better, and life will...

Venice's Gondola Rides

Venice is well known for the gondolas that float up and down the Grand Canal of the city of Venice. It's pretty easy to identify the operators that will be more than happy to row you in their...

Things to do in Venice at Christmas

We travelled to Venice in December 2017, and didn't really know what to expect. If anything, from what we had heard, it wouldn't be very festive at all. Thankfully that wasn't the case, as we love...