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White wine spritzer? I’m not sure what happened to me in Venice, but a party on Saturday saw me drink only a few white wine spritzers. A drink as alien to me as a pint of onion and tripe. My faithful companion had left me, my thirst had gone – my lust for booze had […]

Venice is quite an expensive place to stay. After drinking a few bottles of Tennants Super (which appears to be some special beer in Venice – at the expensive end of the station bar menu) I did the decent thing and passed out on a bench in the sun. On regaining dehydrated sun-baked consciousness, I

Superstitious Italians believe that seeing a nun is bad luck. To combat any potential misfortune, they stick out the second and fifth digits of one hand and touch their genitals with the outstretched fingertips. This I tried on seeing a nun approach. No-one told me that Italian people do it with their hands in their