I've spent the weekend in Venice with Lucy for our wedding anniversary, we had a really good time. We'd been warned that Venician food can be pretty poor, so bought the most recent guide we could find. The TimeOut guide to Venice 3rd edition (2003) came up tops. It has good coverage and seems quite recent, though it has the odd mistake over opening hours. The writing style is great fun too, each place has an ancedote about it and some salacious comment about it, highly recommended.
I'll post some photographs and add my thoughts about Venice in the coming days and I'll update this article to point at them all. We had some great food and drinks, saw some lovely scenes and had great weather. Venice is a perfect place for a weekend break, small compact and interesting, plus you can escape the throngs in a matter of minutes and loose yourself in the canals and alleys.
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I went to Venice as a 16 year old with my mother. It was a daytrip across the water during a visit to the then-nation of Yugoslavia. My abiding memory of Venice is walking, very tired by this point, into a restaurant and sitting down. My mother and I were absolutely exhausted and starving. We were handed a menu, and, after a short glance at the prices, had to stand up and walk out again.
We didn't eat until we got back to Yugoslavia that night.