only ways to get around. Lovely though the city is, one needs to get there and also see other parts of Italy, so we have added our map of the northern half of the country to the map, from Rome to the northern border. The map has been printed on waterproof paper, more for durability than climactic reasons, and the back cover includes a schematic map of the "Vaporetto" water bus routes through the city. Venice in the scale 1:5.000 and Northern Italy inn 1:850.000.