It does happen.

All sorts of movies-pictures often do get engraved on one’s mind and remain forever there in the form of sankharas/wedges.

Venice, a balcony for the two of us, a wildly vulgar lemon-crimson sunset that according to Hoyle standards is reflecting in the Grand Canal; champagne, spaghetti in the palm of your vis-à-vis as if in a spoon (oh year, this is exactly the right/proper way to eat it, if you can). A postcard of the view.

Out of style? Drop it. Everyone wishes to have such vulgar pictures. If your “heart is longing” (c) for it – then have it.

Yet, here you’ll face some difficulties: in fact, such a proposal exists only in films, or if you’re an owner of a palazzo at the Grand Canal; otherwise a dinner for two will cost you much more than €1000 – and that’s “a bit too much” for Venetian food, to my mind.

From Centurion to Aman, wherever you thrash about, there’ll be always something wrong: either there’s no balcony or dock, or there’s a crowd, or they’ve got a balcony, but it’s not for two, or the sunset is on the wrong side, or the price is infernal.

Yet there’s a nuance.

If you cross the Accademia Bridge from the Accademia side and go further passing the Flower Bridge and the falling church with its night concerts, you get to the square. Then turn right and go through a narrow arch to the Conservatory’s yard, where kids play football in the evenings. Then again to the right, and bravely you go straight to the porch. Left turn, along a dark colonnade and further into the darkness, past the huge fence, through which the interior of the Conservatory with its narrow street between two palazzos facing the Grand.

There’s a door to the left, 10 meters away from the Canal.

Actually, you should do it otherwise: this strange place doesn’t usually appear even on booking.com and other sites; well, their bed & breakfast place can be found (that’s the door to the right), but the owners 5-star hotel just isn’t on the Web.

So, you may search for: http://www.palazzettopisani.com and buy a package – a suite and a dinner on a balcony. You’ll get a two-room suite with a view to the Grand and a dinner of 5 courses on its balcony for… 900eur! I’ll repeat it, Venice, 50+ meter suite, at the Grand Canal, and a dinner for two for 900 Euro!

I gotta tell you, it doesn’t have much to do with gourmet food, it’s rather about the memories: the palazzo, the night, you two are together, the main staircase, and it’s almost dark, owners’ tapestries, stained-glass windows, crystal, the view on the Canal, fireplaces, halls, black beams and portrait galleries, and so on and so forth.

And you’re above the city, the Canal, and all the boats, the sun is falling behind the Salute… All this is worth its money, and these couple of thousands of seconds apparently can’t be rated.

However, their pasta with tuna is, indeed, quite a masterpiece.

Just book everything in advance. There are only two such balconies.