We’re here again! It’s Thursday and the weekend is right around the corner. Although we still have a full 48 hours until the weekend, we do have a few great things for you to do today that will make you feel like it’s already here. In today’s installment of Dollars & Sense we have some things you can do in Venice, Italy if you are missing one thing – a budget. Check it out below!
Visit St Mark’s Basilica
Resplendent at the eastern end of the piazza, St Mark’s basilica resembles nothing else in Christendom – from its four great bulbous domes outside to its one-and-a-half square miles of glimmering golden mosaics covering the splendid interior.
Go for 6:45am mass if you want to see it without the crowds and don’t forget the upstairs loggia where the originals of the four Graeco-Roman bronze horses that face the square prance elegantly in a museum
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View The Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Everyone’s favorite eccentric art collector, the redoubtable Peggy assembled a remarkable yet still intensely personal portfolio of modernist and surrealist art, including major works by Picasso, Magritte, Max Ernst (her husband for a while), Giacometti and Jackson Pollock. Peggy’s 18th-century palazzo on the Grand Canal was never finished by the Venetian family that commissioned it. The gardens are lovely, the museum shop is the best in Venice, and the bar/cafè makes a good lunch or tea stop.
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Financial Tip Of The Day
Plan Vacations Ahead Of Time
Vacations are a necessary part of saving our sanity in the busy lives that we lead. But vacations are also a huge drain on the family finances. You can cut the cost of a vacation significantly by planning and booking ahead of time. Bookmark travel sites for finding inexpensive airfare, hotel etc., and book at least two weeks in advance.
