However many times you have been, there’s a dream-like quality to Venice.
For first-timers, it’s like you’ve been here before, its key ingredients belonging nowhere else, so familiar from films, books and countless cultural references. For those returning, its maze of alleys and bridges seems to have twisted since you last mastered them, leading you on paths anew.
Being there this year seems particularly like a dream, after so many long months stuck at home. You want to pinch yourself