How to see Venice and escape the tourist hordes tgamtravel
Venice has become notorious for overtourism, with uncomfortable hordes of travellers packing famed locales such as St. Mark's Square.I’m one of those tourists who hates looking like a tourist. I’d rather get lost in New York than open my Google Maps app on Fifth Avenue. I can live with a mental image of the London Eye if it means I can avoid having an camera dangling off my neck.
As fate would have it, my trip to Venice brought me to the only corner of the city that can be called non-touristy. Unable to find a reasonably priced hotel through my usual means, I turned to the roulette wheel that is the Hotwire “Hot Deal” function, where you learn the name and precise location of your accommodation only after completing a non-refundable payment. In my case, the ball landed on the Hotel Sant’Elena, the only official lodging on the easternmost of Venice’s main islands.
In the days that followed, I dutifully explored every corner of Venice. Once or twice, I won a momentary victory against the tourism industry’s Eye of Sauron, stumbling upon a quiet alleyway where I could contemplate some detail of Venetian oddness in peace – a door opening onto empty space, the sound of a violin emerging out of nowhere, an electric doorbell shaped like a human eye.
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