A couple of weeks ago I went to Venice for the weekend with my sister. We booked the flights a few months ago for around £50 when RyanAir were having a sale, and it was only a few weeks later that we realised that the “Carnevale de Venezia” began on the weekend we were going to be visiting! The carnival is a festival held over the two weeks leading up to lent, and the city is brought alive by locals and tourists dressing up in elaborate costumes and masks, as well as processions down the main canal in decorated gondolas. … Continue reading A Weekend in Venice: Carnevale 2018