Tony and Peter taking a long vacation together across Italy

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Missing Lago Di Garda 💙

In an effort to better manage visitors who frequently outnumber locals in the historic centre, cluttering tiny alleys and widely utilised foot bridges over the canals, Venice will begin requiring day-trippers to make reservations and pay a charge starting January.

The new day-tripper regulations were presented by Venice officials on Friday and will take effect on January 16, 2023.

Visitors who opt not to spend the night in hotels or other accommodations must register online and pay a fee for the day they want to visit. Depending on advance reservations, the time of year, and how crowded the city is, these prices might range from 3 to 10 euros ($3.15 to $10.50) per person.

Infringers who are stopped and cannot prove that they booked and paid with a QR code run the danger of receiving fines as high as 300 euros ($315).

Four out of every five visitors to Venice only stay for the day. About 19 million day-trippers visited Venice in 2019, the last year of tourism before the pandemic, although they only contributed a small portion of the earnings from those who stayed at least one night.

Any claims that the move would aim to reduce the number of tourists visiting Italy's most popular city were dismissed by Venice's tourism commissioner.

“We won't talk about number cutoffs. We're talking about incentives and disincentives,” said Simone Venturini.

Prior to the pandemic, the reservation-and-fee strategy had been proposed but was shelved. Travel limitations imposed by COVID-19 caused tourism in Venice to almost completely disappear, giving Venetians their city almost entirely to themselves for the first time in decades.

Midway through the 1960s, mass tourism started. As a result of traffic, the high expense of supplying food and other commodities in a city without cars, periodic flooding that causes damage to homes and businesses, and other factors, the number of Venetians living in the city has progressively decreased.

They are exempt from the reserve-and-fee requirement because they already pay a lodging tax as guests at hotels and pensions.

With the new rule, Venice aims to “find this balance between (Venetian) resident and long-term and short-term visitors,” Venturini said, promising that the new system “will be simple for visitors” to manage. He billed Venice as the first city in the world putting such a system for day-only visitors in place.

The tourism official wished to "minimise frictions between day tourists and residents" by charging a fee and reservations. In a city that is 5 square kilometres (2 square miles) in size, visitors can outnumber locals by a ratio of two to one during the height of the tourist season.

Just over 50,000 people live in Venice's ancient city, which is a small percentage of what it was a few decades ago.

Children under the age of six, those with impairments, and Venice vacation apartment owners who can submit documentation proving they pay real estate taxes are exempt from the day-tripper expenses.

When day-trippers depart cruise ships for a short period of time, they add to the throngs of tourists swarming Venice's maze of winding alleyways, especially close to St. Mark's Square. Unless their cruise liner firm pays a predetermined charge to Venice, those tourists will also be required to pay.

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Irondad fic ideas #152

Every year around the holidays, a "bug war" breaks out in the Parker-Stark households 

Not bugs as in creepy crawlies. Technology bugs. Surveillance.

Tony and Peter are both determined to figure out what the other wants for the holidays 

The two are on surprisingly even ground: Peter's spider-sense doesn't consider this a threat, and FRIDAY won't snitch. They both have to find any "bugs" the old fashioned way.

Bonus:

Soon enough the whole Ironfam is wrapped up in it. November and December become a time of yearly paranoia, everyone watching what they say and "checking for bugs." 

Even Peter's friends discover tiny bugs on them. When Ned first learns the itty bitty robot behind his coat button is from Tony Stark trying to find out what he wants for Christmas he faints on the spot

Bonus 2, Crack Taken Seriously Boogaloo:

For a bit of drama: it's all fun and games until one year Peter gets kidnapped. The situation is bad. They only find him in time thanks to one of the "holiday bugs" Tony recently snuck on

Peter and Tony going on vacation to Italy

My trip to Italy 🇮🇹

the interim+s4 tomgreg dynamic developing from tom essentially symbolically marrying greg through buying greg's soul but still hanging onto his literal, rotting marriage, and therefore unable to fulfill his relationship with greg... filling in the negative space with meaningless proxy-sex (that doesn't even progress to sex anyway) ie: going back to an early 2000s-esque era of toxic-masculine-homoeroticism that they'd never actually had before, regularly getting drunk together and saying shit he doesn't mean - just to fill the space - about scoping out ladies, getting notches in the chart, being the disgusting brothers... all of it literally just being things that tom is saying and not feeling and not realizing that greg doesn't know that he's not feeling it, greg is operating as though it's real, greg is in fact using this tool of homoeroticism with not just more enthusiasm but more intuition than tom is bc he will take absolutely anything he can from tom... he will take some offhanded comment about a party being "titty town" and go to all this effort to make it so, for tom, so that they can just be sexual together in the same vicinity.... and neither of them are actually having sex at all! they're moving through the most frustrating limbo of being so so close but with no release, not with each other because tom's marriage remains a wall and also not outside of each other because they don't actually want anyone but each other...... they're like literally not capable of fulfilling desire with anyone else but they also can't be together bc of the illusion they've created about being with other people. but you know you KNOW that now that tom's got the chair and he brought greg with him, and he's successfully got a vaccuum seal on his rotting marriage, that the direction that they've been angled toward these past months with all these walls in the way - being truly alone together, no caveats, no need for a proxy, no negative space, just them and everything that they need from each other spilling out between them... is right around the fucking corner.

I’m on holiday in Italy at the moment. I’ve been spending all day at the beach staring at juicy Italian bros, thinking about my scrawny frame…

Reckon I could get a transformation? 😉

Thanks for your booking with FWK Vacations! The juicy Italian vacation of a lifetime is about to begin.

You wake up as the sun hits your eyes. As you blink awake, still groggy, you realise that the little pleasure boat you’ve been riding has turned, putting you in the sun. Ah well, you think, you may as well work on your tan. You stretch out your thick, golden muscles and close your eyes again.

By the time the boat docks by the beach, you’re feeling pleasantly warm and ready for a drink. Your bros have the cooler in the shade, so you can get back to enjoying the Sardinian sun ASAP.

You sashay down the beach in your speedo, holding a beer. Up ahead, you spot a group of American himbos setting up their umbrella. Some of them are already checking out your juicy Italian muscle bod. You walk up and grab one of the bros, giving him a kiss and a grope instead of a hello. “Ciao, fra’,” you say, in your thick Italian accent. “Who wants a lick of my gelato?”

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