This was the first place that I had a spritz in Venice with my husband (well, before he was my husband). I remember it clearly because of the beautiful lion statue in front of the Arsenal – in fact the bar is called the “white lion”. Sitting there was the first moment that I liked Venice – I had been only once before in the height of summer when it was packed with tourists. I stayed in a really touristy part of town and thought that Venice was tacky and overrated. Then, when I met my husband we took a trip to Venice in March. I remember sitting at this bar in Arsenale in the sun watching the locals pass by and it felt like a completely different city to the one I first visited. Lots of our travel advice on Kids In Venice is about discovering this side of Venice.