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To Venice with Love: A Midlife Adventure
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To Venice with Love: A Midlife Adventure
Current price: $17.99
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To Venice with Love: A Midlife Adventure
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Philip and Caroline Jones, a middle-aged couple living in Edinburgh, found themselves facing redundancy and an uncertain future. Until they received some advice from a complete stranger in a pub.
Their response was to sell everything in order to move to Venice, in search of a better, simpler life. They were wrong about the 'simpler' bit...
recounts how they arrived in Venice with ten pieces of luggage, no job, no friends and no long-term place to stay. From struggling with the language to battling bureaucracy; the terror of teaching English to Italian teenagers, the company of a modestly friendly cat... and finally, from debugging financial systems on an Edinburgh industrial estate, to building an ordinary life in an extraordinary city,
is a love-letter to a city that changed their lives. It's a story told through the history, music, art, architecture (and, of course, the food) of