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Venice can be chuffing cold in winter and this may sound stupid but it is prone to flooding. If I went back I would like to go at carnival time, all those fantastic masks and costumes, I think it is in springtime but not sure.

I am not much of a romantic but Mrs Chopper and I took a Gondola in the evening and asked to stay on the tiny back canals, all dimly lit against the old decaying houses, went past Casanovas house, it really was extremely romantic, so much so that I proposed to her under the bridge of sighs. I am...

It has changed. The Doge's palace is now a Weatherspoons.

As you are not there long its important to get a feel and the history of Venice. So i would spend 1 day on a visit to The Doges Palace with a guide and a tour of the most important places in Venice with their history, it is seriously facinating. Then I would spend 1 day just walking around the...