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Venice For Pleasure: 40 Years On

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The author, J. G. Links, gets it. This is only walking tours book I've ever used that doesn't expect you to read and walk simultaneously. Instead, Mr. Links walks you to a café/park bench/great vista and invites you take a seat while he tells you everything about what you can see. With that accomplished, he gives directions for walking to the next sitting place where he then regales you with wonderful stories about the city before you. Following the guidebook, my husband and I found ourselves in a perfectly private little piazza on the Grand Canal that we never, ever would have discovered because we would have assumed that the passageway was private property. I have recommended this book numerous times over the years (actually an older edition -- my husband and I were newlyweds when we first used the book in 1988) and I'm back at Amazon buying yet another copy to give as a gift to friends who are making the trip next week.