To Venice with Love av Philip Gwynne Jones

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<p><font><b>''A</b><b>n inspiring, life-affirming story'' </b><b><i>Reader''s Digest</i></b></font><br><br>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.<br><br>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...<br><br><i>To Venice with Love</i> 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, <i>To Venice with Love</i> is a love-letter to a city that changed their lives. It''s a story