Like many visitors to Venice, I was convinced the highlight of our trip would be being paddled through the city's serene canals by a gondolier. However, our gondola ride was anything but the bespoke experience I'd been dreaming of.
"We had a wonderful time exploring the island, and at the end of the trip, we arrived in St. John's, but we couldn't find our hotel anywhere. We had the street address, and although we found the street it was on, there was no hotel on it."