@brittarnhild
My love affair with Venice, or Venezia as I prefere to call it, started when I was 14. I had three younger brothers, and that summer, in 1972, my brave, adventurous parents took us all on a caravan travel from Trondheim in Norway, through Europe, sout to Lido di Jesolo, close to Venezia. One day we went in to visit La Serenissima, and I was lost.
It took me a great many years to come back though. Not until 2005, when my husband and I wanted to do something special for our silver anniversary, and we spent a week in Nati House.
Since then I have been back, and back, and back and back and......
Reading books from and about Venezia must have started about the same time, in September 2005. We rented Nati House, and I remember there were a lot of Venezia books in the appartment. It must have been there I found my first Donna Leon, and also the first book which took me on walks around the city. Then, on my next visit I found a tiny little bookstore with old and new English books about Venezia in the Ghetto, and I went back home with a suitcase too heavy.
Since then my collection on Venezia books has grown, with speed, and somehow I always have a Venezia book on the go somewhere in the house.
The latest adition to my collection came in the mail from amazon a few weeks ago; John Freely´s Strolling Through Venice. the Definitive Walking Guidebook to La Serenissima.
Today I have watched RAI uno´s progran from last night about Venezia, my mind is flowing over with longing. The perfect night to enjoy a glass of red wine and to start John Freely´s book.
