
After arriving in Venice at the end of a cruise, a friend told me about an excursion to the Piazza the night before she disembarked from the ship, including the price of the gondola ride her group decided to enjoy. “You paid what?!”

After arriving in Venice at the end of a cruise, a friend told me about an excursion to the Piazza the night before she disembarked from the ship, including the price of the gondola ride her group decided to enjoy. “You paid what?!”

Nan McElroy is a freelance writer/photographer, AIS sommelier, and passionate practitioner of the Venetian rowing style immersed in a very living Venice. She is the author of Italy: Instructions for Use, praised as "an antidote" and "a boon" by Publishers Weekly and ranked #1 by About.com's Go Italy.
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