Sunday Telegraph, 6 January 2008
A little place by the canal
...From his waterfront holiday home on the Venetian island of Giudecca, near Elton John's retreat and the sumptuous Cipriani hotel, John Turner can lie in bed and watch gondoliers drifting by each morning for a spot of fine-tuning in the neighbouring boatyard.
He strolls across the island, which takes a matter of minutes, and looks over the canal to St Mark's Square, happily detached from the tourist hordes. "My litmus test is that you can't buy a postcard on Giudecca because there's no market for them here," says John, 57, a management consultant from Tunbridge Wells, Kent...
...The apartment sleeps four and has views to Venice lagoon and islands from both floors; it also has a shared private mooring and is three or four minutes by waterbus to St Mark's Square...
