ITALY Readers's Tips - If you don't have a map of that region, pull one up at Michelin (click then google the names of towns to see which might interest you.here are a lot of Etruscan excavation sites nearby, Tarquinia is surrounded by them. Or take a train to Grosseto, center of the Maremma region, takes about an hour.

My husband and I are talking about taking a trip to Italy next year and are trying to decide if including a stop in Venice as part of our trip is worth it.Is Venice really as expensive as it seems I read somewhere that a gondola ride at night is 150 euros.Is that true I appreciate any suggestions you may have to make our trip to Venice great. Venice is an amazing spectacle just seeing all of the gondolas, vaporettos and other watercrafts and lack of cars on the island blows your mind.o the Doges, too, while you're there.t's definitely worth seeing.ut it's not cheap.

Lots of places bill themselves as the "Venice of the North," but there's really nowhere else like Venice in all the world.It is absolutely worth seeing.It is expensive, but even so I highly recommend that you stay in the city itself and not in nearby Mestre on the mainland.Venice is strangely quiet at night, given no auto traffic, and absolutely magical in the starlight/moonlight and early in the morning. Gondola rides at night are indeed pricy, but you can get one for around 90 euros during the day if you can do without the romance.If you just want the bare experience of riding on a gondola, you can seek out one of the traghetti gondolas that ferry people, standing up, across the grand canal for just pocket change not a romantic experience, but you'd be able to say you'd been on a gondola.

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