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Restaurant Il Nuovo Galeon, Castello
By Editor at February 14, 2011 | 16:06 | 0 Comment
The Nuovo Galeon Restaurant is a fairly recent addition to the group of 'Restauranti della Buona Accoglienza Venezia‘ and you can read more about this initiative in our 'Best Restaurants in Venice Guide". Suffice to say here, that this group of restaurants prides itself on preparing natural food, with the emphasis firmly on quality and giving a good deal to the more...
New Year’s Eve / Early New Year’s Day in Venice
By Editor at January 1, 2011 | 13:45 | 4 Comments
No parking available We phoned all the parking sites at Tronchetto and Piazzale Roma, but all were full. Never mind, we parked in Mestre and took the efficient bus service into Piazzale Roma. The bus fare is higher for New Year's Eve, but somehow paying a small one off premium seems reasonable given the low fares during the rest of the year. The bus is full of Italians, more...
Casanova’s Stomping Ground: the historic red light district
By Editor at December 16, 2010 | 11:54 | 5 Comments
You may have read our review of the ‘Antiche Carampane’ or the ‘Old Prostitute’ as the name translates, which more than hints at the historic red light district. This article looks at how the red light district grew rapidly and where it was concentrated. The growth of the red light district Prostitution had existed in some form or other from the very founding of more...
New Year’s Eve 2011 in Venice: kissing, comedy, fireworks, free music
By Editor at December 15, 2010 | 20:28 | 4 Comments
Venice’s stunning beauty and romance are wonderful at any time of year. But there are a few good reasons to get yourself there for New Year. Communal kiss Venice holds a communal kiss in Piazza San Marco and Piazza Ferretto in Mestre as the clock strikes 12 on New Year’s eve. So you never know who you might brush lips with. The kiss symbolises the spreading of peace more...
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Al Vapore, Mestre / Marghera
By Editor at December 12, 2010 | 13:08 | 46 Comments
What do you do when you've had a few canal-side dinners and been sightseeing all day? What do you do when you've spent all day looking at Venice's stunning beauty, and you are suffering from 'gallery back'? Maybe you've already had a canal-side romantic dinner or two, and had a few drinks at one of the livelier bars or enoteche. You want something animated, maybe a more...
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Venice Transport Strike Dec 10
By Editor at December 9, 2010 | 10:24 | 0 Comment
ACTV announced a strike of all buses and water services including the vaporetti for December 10th. The latest information is that the strike will only last from 13.00-16.00. We suggest you still check the ACTV site for latest information before travelling. However, the updated information only appears in Italian, just to confuse matters. Bear in mind the strike more...
Iain Banks, author, ‘Venice is an unfailing source of happiness’
By Editor at December 8, 2010 | 10:57 | 1 Comments
Venice is uniquely beautiful Venice comes up trumps for the author Ian Banks according to an article in the UK's The Independent. Banks, author of the Wasp Factory, Whit, and The Crow Road among other novels, as well as a series of scence fiction books under the pen name of Ian M Banks, is clearly a big fan of Venice. Banks states that 'Venice is just uniquely more...
Restaurant: Alla Mascareta, Castello
By Editor at December 8, 2010 | 09:26 | 5 Comments
Where food meets entertainment Everyone wants different things from a restaurant. Everyone can agree on great food, ambience, attentive service, but dig down into great food and differences start to emerge. Our definition is great Italian food-classical or modern. With regard to ambience, things get more difficult. There’s the type of ambience you might wish for a more...
Venice Arrival and Orientation
By Editor at December 2, 2010 | 16:54 | 18 Comments
Orientation The Island city of Venice is often described as being shaped like a fish. Traffic free, apart the west-side or left-hand mouth of the fish where cars,buses and trains arrive, its highways and thoroughfares are canals. Everything in Venice has to be brought from the mainland, with the exception of some seafood and vegetables that are sourced directly from more...
Osteria Bancogiro, San Polo
By Editor at December 1, 2010 | 09:36 | 0 Comment
Near Rialto Campo San Giacometto is close to Rialto bridge and home to several cicchetti (Venetian tapas) bars. It also neighbours on the Rialto fish market. But our focus today is one of the cicchetti bars that doubles as a restaurant, normally with the bar downstairs and restaurant upstairs-or outside. The Osteria Bancogiro is in the eponymous building that houses more...
