The little Venice scene I meant to add was going swimmingly. Until I realized this is a perfect opportunity to show off something the average tourist doesn’t get; the inside of a Venetian home. An insight into the lives of the working Venetians.
Which would get into all sorts of interesting discussion about Venice in the modern world, beset with tourists they are unable to do anything about because Rome is beset with debt and won’t throttle the destructive flow. Nothing sums up all of this better than what happens if you try typing “Inside a Venetian home” into a search engine. You get a zillion Air BnB links, because the cost of living has gotten so high and the tourists so rapacious working Venetians are selling or getting their houses sold out from under them to make them available to the tourist trade.
But not only is it a bit much to research, it is also out of the arc. I do want my protagonist to realize there is context she is missing. I want her to get a glimpse behind the paper-mache walls of Euro Disneyland. But her first chance to actually step backstage needs to take place in Athens.
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