La Serenissima, Italy’s fabled and famed city of serenity earned its name largely because motorcars and roaring mopeds did not clutter the city’s atmosphere. Today as you catch the murmuring of thousands of shuffling tourist feet and listen into the constant yapping, you can give the thought a wry grin. 

Venice is beautiful. Millions of postcards and thousands of Kodak prints couldn’t capture its thrill: the treasures of the Accademia, the rising morning mist of its spring, the shadowy browns of a decadent delicious delightful autumn, the splash of gondolas and the sinewy gondoliers, the colours from Murano glassware. Every single aspect of Venice is a traveller’s dream come true and in the final reckoning it’ll hardly matter that a 139, 999, 999 others realised that the same year that you did!