''An inspiring life-affirming story'' Reader''s Digest Philip and Caroline Jones a middle-aged couple living in Edinburgh found themselves facing redundancy and an uncertain future. Until they received some advice from a complete stranger in a pub. Their response was to sell everything in order to move to Venice in search of a better simpler life. They were wrong about the ''simpler'' bit. To Venice with Love recounts how they arrived in Venice with ten pieces of luggage no job no friends and no long-term place to stay. From struggling with the language to battling bureaucracy; the terror of teaching English to Italian teenagers the company of a modestly friendly cat. and finally from debugging financial systems on an Edinburgh industrial estate to building an ordinary life in an extraordinary city To Venice with Love is a love-letter to a city that changed their lives. It''s a story told through the history music art architecture (and of course the food) of La Serenissima. . Language: English