What a special and magical apartment and city and hosts!! We stayed for one month at Giorgia and Michele's marvelous apartment.
Michele met us at the bus and was always so kind and generous and helpful during our whole stay. Giorgia greeted us with a cake! The apartment was very comfortable and it couldn't have been in a more perfect location.....convenient to the Piazzale Roma (bus station) and near the train station, but in a very quiet residential neighborhood away from the hordes and swarms of tourists. 5 minutes away, in either directions, and over two bridges, were wonderful supermarkets with a great butcher and delicious ready-made food for the Venetians, not touristy stuff. A few doors away from the apartment was a wonderful and friendly bakery and a great neighborhood cafe/bar (al 133) where we spent many evenings sitting, outside, with the locals, admiring the canal. A truly lovely and delicious trattoria a few blocks,,and no bridges, away, in Campiello Mosca, as well. A few blocks away from the apartment was the famous Frari Church and San Roccio and then a few blocks in the other direction the lovely square of St. Margarita and the Carmini. A less than a mile walk to San Marco, as well. Michele was always available to answer any questions or offer suggestions. It was truly a most delightful and special vacation made extra wonderful by our hosts. The only bad thing about the whole trip was that we had to go home!