Dear Venetians:  rest assured these folks are *not* Sassi Italy Tours clients.  Venice is not a campground where you break out a portable stove or backwater where you drunkenly engage in uhm…adult behaviors in public.  It’s not a sunbathing beach (the Lido isn’t that far by ferry, people).  It’s a unique connection to the past, a living museum you can walk around in, but please don’t ruin the magic for others while you’re doing so.