Subject: Venice Hotel

<< .. for many on their first trip to Italy, Venice is a must. It is a relatively easy train ride from Florence, with perhaps a change in Bologna, (where you could stop for a day!)>> I agree. We stayed at Pensione Accademia in Venice and it was fabulous. It was reasonable and right in the middle of things, yet in a parklike setting with two gardens. I would go back in an instant. Jan