A peaceful Oasis amidst the hordes of tourists in Venice! All I can hear when people talk about Venice is that the town is overcrowded, there are tourists everywhere, it is impossible to enjoy the city. Well, this is absolutely true if, like what 95% of people do when visiting Venice, you only stick to [...]

Yes, I admit it: I am Venetian and I never been on a rowing boat in my whole life! First of all I would like to clarify something: the term Venetian does not apply only to people who are born and live in Venice itself, but also to all of those people who live in [...]

Sunday 7th of June 2009 my husband and I, together with our son and a friend of his went to visit the Oasis WWF Valle Averto on the SS 309 (The Romea), the road which connects Venice with Chioggia.  It was a beautiful experience: first we took few rounds on a cart pulled by horses [...]