Being subscribed to a fabulous thing called http://www.travelmole.com I get to hear about the inside track on many stories relating to the worlds most unique city, Venice, and the travel industry in general. So by the time you lot are picking it out of the weekend supplements or blogs it is often already two weeks old. Anyhow, back to my current rant, the current mayor Salvador "something-or-other" wants to charge day trippers a visitors tax. He says it is because they come in their thousands, block the streets, don't give up their seats (which they don't pay for by easily walking past the ticket booth) on water buses for the pregnant, old or infirm, have huge backpacks that knock into people, bring their own pack lunch and leave litter everywhere and basically contribute little or nothing
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