Tourist tips

• The public Papadopoli Gardens in San Polo is a great place to take a break

• Get a bus ticket before you board the bus to Venice; it costs half as much as paying the driver.

• If you sit inside a Venice cafe you will be charged. If you sit outside you will be charged more.

• The left luggage office at Venice railway station is at the end of platform 14 and open 6am to midnight.

• The price of a vaporetto ticket is the same no matter how long the journey.