You occasionally hear people saying that walking around Venice is like being in a film. It’s usually meant as high praise for the unreal beauty of the city. But all too often it is the literal truth. Venice doesn’t only host an annual international film...
The first day of Venice officially as a museum/theme-park. Just a year ago the left-hand photo was an April Fool’s hoax. Today the other photo is reality: the turnstiles introduced just outside the station, to redirect tourist-flows. A temporary measure for the...
There seems to be little sympathy for the South-American tourist who was robbed in broad daylight by a Venetian resident, as reported in La Nuova Venezia: The sequence of events was caught with great clarity by a professional photographer, Maurizio Torresan, and...
“An unputdownable thriller” These are the words blazoned across the top of Philip Gwynne Jones’s novel, The Venetian Game, published last year by Constable and chosen this month as Waterstones Thriller of the Month. They appear with my name beneath them, now on stacks...
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