The Politics of Washing: Real Life in Venice
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780719808784 (0719808782)
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Polly Coles spent a year living with her Italian husband and children in Venice, a place most people only visit for holidays. This isn’t a travel book about a romantic weekend, it’s about the difficulty of getting a washing machine delivered when the canals are at high water and there’s no lift in t...
The Politics of Washing is the journey of a family (husband, wife, and four children) who live in Venice for a year. In many ways, Venice is a world apart from anywhere else - where else can you find yourself barricaded inside your house using a high tide, or walking through water on a normal day to...