Marco is a welcoming host who will kindly arrange to meet you after you arrive and escort you to the apartment himself. (We recommend taking him up on the offer; we tried to walk from the train station and Google Maps couldn’t quite navigate us through the maze of Venetian streets). He’ll also recommend some great restaurants to try—and point out which ones to avoid in the neighborhood—and mark them on a printed map. The apartment was impeccably clean and quiet—just the ticket after a long walkabout under the hot sun. Oh, and did I mention there’s AC?