PRIVATE ROOM: Coworking in Beautiful, OFFSEASON Venice -- then Carnival!

Venice in the winter: moody, foggy, gloomy, romantic. La Serenissima at its most serene. Everything you have heard about Venice is true. It truly is a magical, beautiful, one-of-a-kind city… AND it can be an overcrowded, inauthentic, touristy hell on earth. A trip of this kind—a coworking trip of one month—is the ONLY good way to experience Venice: 1) We will go during Venice’s off-season, so that crowds will be minimal and tourists almost gone, and 2) We will stay for an extended period of time in order to see what it’s like to actually live there! The best way to de-Disney-fy a place is to go grocery shopping. I already did this trip by myself, from mid-January to mid-February 2023, and it was incredible. People do actually live in Venice, and only by taking your time do you discover that they collect their garbage by boat, that grocery trucks are delivered by boat and crane, that old Italian men drink wine at ten am, that high schoolers spill out onto the canals to smoke cigarettes after class, that young mothers carry strollers up and down Venice's many bridges. Venice suffers from overtourism, but it DOES need tourism to survive, and this is how to do it: long-term and off-season! This is slow travel at its best. As novelist and noted Venice enthusiast Henry James once said, “The only way to care for Venice as she deserves it is to give her a chance to touch you often — to linger and remain and return.” The first two weeks of this trip will be utter calm. We'll enjoy the quiet off-season in order to get acquainted with the city and its various artistic and aesthetic treasures. In the third week, however, Carnival will begin! NOTE: Carnival in Venice is NOT like Rio or New Orleans! It's not really a street party scene. People dress up in masks and costumes and walk around the gorgeous city. There are private balls, but they are pricey. You can, however, admire the costumes for free. ;) I will be organizing is regular social activities such as happy hour / aperitivo, dinners, and other get-togethers, including walking tours of each of the neighborhoods listed as "stops"! You are also welcome to organize things amongst yourselves: this coworking trip is a way to ensure that you’ll have other people in the city with whom you can go to yoga class, go to gelato, go sightseeing, etc. — while making some lifelong digital nomad friends in the process!