Blogs from Verona, Veneto, Italy, Europe - page 14

April 23-24 We arrived in Verona at around 8am and tried to find internet to contact a man by the name of Christian, with whom we had booked our hostel. After wandering the streets for a while I finally found some internet signal that I could mooch off of to contact him. He instructed us on how to navigate the bus lines to make it to the outskirts of Verona so that he could meet us and pick us up and take us to his bed and breakfast. After finding a local that could speak english and help us make our way through the language barrier, we contacted Christian once we were closer to his home. He came and picked us up in his tiny compact car and drove us to the top of a ... read more

So it has been a while since I have updated this thing so I guess I'll start at my last trip out of Ferrara. With the group I went to Verona... which is the home of the famous tale of Romeo and Juliet. We did a morning walking city tour, but it was so cold that I don't remember much of what we did. We did however go and stop by the balcony at the house of Juliet (although the one in the picture would not have been the real one of Juliet, if she was real or not). We also of course stop by the famous churches and were then talked to death about the smallest details. However, the interesting thing that I learned at this church was: it was built to be an upside ... read more

The titles are getting silly now so Adam isn't allowed to write another one! Pretty, pretty and more pretty, once you get inside the ring road! We were only here for a few hours but it was very pretty. Having gone into the main citadella we were able to see all of the main sights from the bridge. We didn't get to see Juliet's balcony but that didn't detract from the quaintness of the town. This comes with a huge recommendation to see before it gets too touristy!!!!!!!!!! Lots of Love Us xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx... read more

Lots of people in Italy can't speak English!.....and I cant understand much from them.... Anyways.. This moring went to the post office to mail stuff.....had two small boxes coz one mask was already in a box.. Walked all the way to the post office and the man saw them and insisted on mailing them in one box! argh. They dont fit in the medium box, so I got the large one, walked all the way back to the hostel, pack as much as I can in and walked all that way back and guess what? That post office ran out of the surface mail sheets!!!!!! Airmail was only 10Euros more..but still..10 Euros...... So, I had to walk down further to another post office to get it sent out!!! Argh...all that took 1.5 hours....walking in a bad ... read more

In retrospect, Verona is a beautiful city (from the bell tower), the streets were packed and we felt rushed as we only had the afternoon to spend before we were off again. We made the obligatory stop at Juliet's balcony. A couple hundred years ago, an entrprising Veronese dude slapped an empty Roman sarcophagus against the wall and labeled it "Juliet's balcony". Tourists having been flocking here ever since...in droves. We saw some interesting things, and in our typical style we tried to cram too much in. By the time we found the wine bar, Enoteca Cangrande (recommended by Amanda!), we had about 15 minutes to cram in a wine tasting. The owner, Giovanni, insisted on bringing us mutiple delicious appetizers and we experienced our first classic Italian rush job. That is, "Oh, you're in a ... read more