Paolo gave us a very attentive and respectful welcome, we fully appreciated.
The description of his flat is fair. And the place is ideally situated, at a few minutes' walk from Santa Lucia's Station or 'Fundamenta', on Canal Grande. From his place, it's also quite possible to ramble through the whole city enjoying the surprisingly narrow lanes, the 'sotoporteghi' and countless bridges, its 'campi' and the two 'piazze', preferably sensitively and with the eyes... wide... OPEN!
Because Venice has a unique atmosphere; 'Venezia' is a journey between the brilliant past and the present days, exceptional features and ordinary life, sumptuousness and decay, strategic settlement and settling of ground, dreams and dramas to be sensed inmediately, but certainly to be discovered very patiently.

If I have any opportunity to travel again to Venice – and it's worth it –, I'd be glad to stay another time at Paolo's , if he would agree!

Andrée