A fortnight ago, we traveled to Venice in celebration of Olie's birthday. The city featured highly on both of our top 10 cities list and ideally we would have loved to have been there during the festivities of Carnival; but hotel and flight prices convinced us to defer the trip to later in the year. Coincidentally, the weekend we booked in turned out to be timed with another famous Venetian festival - Festa del Redentore, so we ended up paying 'festive' prices for our holiday accommodation but there was a lot of atmosphere in town with hundreds of tourist and locals joining into the celebrations.
