Venice must be lived, Venice must be experienced. Venice cannot be seen in a day, but unfortunately the majority of people visiting, will be here only for one day.Thankfully Martha Bakerjian choose not to and she wrote this lovely post telling us all about it! Another lovely guest post for The Best memory of Venice [...]

The posts on the Best memory of Venice keep coming in and I am very pleased that the Best memory which Robin Locker Lacey of My Mélange has taken back is that  of food (my best memories are always of our Venetian food) and of the kindness of Venetian people, which many times is overlooked by [...]

VENEXIA XE BELA FABRICÀ SUL MAR, CHI NON LA POL VEDAR NO LA PO STIMAR (Venice is beautiful, built on the sea, who cannot see it cannot appreciate it)   This is a very old Venetian saying and well, who has been to Venice can only agree with this! (For more Venetian sayings you can [...]

November has arrived in Venice with a vengeance: today the sky is grey, the rain is pouring and the wind is howling! And the wind is also blowing in memories of Venice from some other dear Facebook friend: Jessica from Bootsnall! Jessica has been to Venice many times but it always amazes me how she [...]

Have you ever wandered around Venice and got blisters on your feet and could not find a pharmacy where you could get some plasters? Have you ever run out of toothpaste, shampoo or you ladies “know what” and looked everywhere for a supermarket and could not find one amongst the calles of the city? Well, [...]

Simple basic Italian cooking lessons. We did it: finally our video for CookInVenice.com is on line! Arianna and I are really pleased we managed to do this, we have been thinking about it for a while, but never really got around doing it. I would like to thank all our students who took part in [...]

10 Old Venetian Proverbs about Food, Drink and Family Yesterday at the library in Oriago, my home town, I came across a very interesting book about old Venetian proverbs, many of which I remember from when I was young and many I did not know. The book is called Proverbi Veneti Commentati by Mario Massari [...]

A class for intermediate to advanced students of Italian where we can pratice conversational skills and techniques. We will talk about Italy, Italian food, Italian fashion and all things  Italian :  REGISTER