Stories from Union Lido

Why we still end up on the same beach

Our children are grown up, we now travel halfway around the world — and yet we keep returning to Union Lido. On holiday friendships, familiar paths and the stories woven into a place.

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Union Lido · 7 min

Shorts. Two gas rings. A broom.

We travel far and like to find our own way. Yet in August, we get the little caravan out. On living our own life on a smaller scale, everyday life outdoors and what camping means to us.

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Union Lido · 8 min

Leading Camping

A beautiful wash block with too few toilets, a controversial Dog Camp and ever-larger pitches: Union Lido has to evolve, even though many guests love it precisely as it is.

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Union Lido · 7 min

Union Lido for first-timers and regulars

Booking, arriving, shopping, cycling and getting breakfast rolls without a long queue: what we actually find useful after around 25 years at Union Lido.

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Union Lido · 15 min

From camping to art

In the morning we sit outside our caravan; a few hours later we are surrounded by contemporary art. On clichés, different ways of looking and works of art that stay with us.

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Venice · 7 min

Island-hopping by bicycle

Cycling across Lido and Pellestrina to Chioggia: an unusually beautiful journey through the lagoon — as long as the bicycles are allowed back on the boat.

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Venice Lagoon · 9 min

Breakfast at Vianello

Almost every other holiday morning begins at Vianello: with cappuccino, bread rolls and half an hour in a car park on Via Fausta. No special view — and precisely for that reason, somewhere we love to sit.

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Cavallino-Treporti · 6 min

Spinnenwilli and the statue of Yang Li

Nine-year-old Spinnenwilli only wanted a week’s holiday. But then spaceships hover over Beijing, Doctor Thang searches for a mysterious statue — and the Spinnenwilli phone rings again.

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Union Lido and Beijing · 12 min