Reddit reviews Venetian Dreaming

Kerouac wrote his novel when people did not travel much. International travel is pretty mundane now and nobody wants to read about your vacation.

There are still a few travel accounts written by expats. I'm currently reading Venetian Dreaming by Paula Weideger. She rented a palazzo for a year and socialized with the Peggy Guggenheim Museum crowd. I doubt that she could have published this book if she were not a writer and well-connected.