I can handle venice being comical by craic
No need to leave your SOH behind just because you are in perhaps the most beautiful city in the world.My very first afternoon in Venice I threw open the shutters in my room which looked out onto a canal and lay on the bed and read a book by Thurber. Very funny guy, Thurber is.
We were having lunch at a restaurant close to the Barefoot Bridge on the Grand Canal - sitting outdoors on the very lip of the canal - and behind me a mobile phone rang and the guy answered it - and he had one of those mechanical voices like Stephen Hawking or someone who has had their larynx removed - and he kept saying (IN DEEP MECHANICAL TONES) "VENICE IS VERY ROMANTICA. "
I was freaking out because ever since that gross gross cult brit show League Of Gentlemen (which has a very scarey guy with a deep voice) I can't stand those deep voices.
If anyone says to me in deep tones "YOU IS MY WOMAN NOW" I completely freak.
So "VENICE IS VERY ROMANTICA" nearly had me jumping in the Grand Canal. The daughter tried to keep a straight face at my terror because she was facing the guy.
Pic is of daughter trying to restrain her mirth.