Venice is a city of canals sitting on top of a lagoon, where flooding not experienced in fifty years has sent restaurant tables and chairs floating down streets, and meter-plus-high water into hotels and landmarks. We’ll hear first-hand about it from a water taxi driver and passenger, en route to the airport.
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