Mrs Milton was idly browsing the Airbnb website when she let out an excited yelp. ‘Look at this place,’ she said. ‘It’s unbelievable.’
It was indeed – a 16th Century Venetian palazzo complete with marble pillars and vast chandeliers. ‘If we rent this our girls will want to come with us.’
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This was indeed our goal: to tempt our daughters – Madeleine, Heloise and Aurelia (aged 21, 19 and 15) – to come on a final family holiday. The bribery worked. Two months later, we were speeding across the Venice lagoon towards our new, if temporary, home.
