If you think that a self-catering holiday means exchanging one sink for another, then this book will change your mind. Written by two empty-nesters who love to travel but hate being tourists, it's a lighthearted chronicle of their first adventure together in Venice. Full of useful observations and amusing and informative anecdotes, these two 'ducks' achieve what they set out to do, which is to show how fun and easy it is to be a local in your destination of choice, if only for a week.

• The Venice Project
• From a Venetian Courtyard *** TOP THREE BOOK ***
• The Politics of Washing: Real Life in Venice
• Back To Venice
• Venice in the Moonlight