Libreria Acqua Alta, Venice
Call me old-fashioned but like many other people, I love real books that I can hold in my hands and savor by a crackling fire or on the beach. So when we travel, our first port of call is usually the local bookstore to pick up something beyond the standard guidebooks and paperback novels. In Venice, it is the Libreria Acqua Alta (which means High Waters Bookstore in English). It is an appropriate name. Perched on the side of…