Where We're Going

Where We're Going

Saturday 14 June 2008

Pope TV & Crock Da Shock!

We left Venice for Verona on a super swanky double-decker train. Verona is the most expensive place on our trip, accomodation-wise, so we only spent one night there. When I booked the place I had no idea that it was actually a 2 star hotel that I was booking! No wonder it was a bit pricey, but it was nice to have a bit of luxury instead of the usual dorm rooms. The hotel itself was lovely, as was the guy at reception when we arrived who thought we must be brother and sister as we looked much too young to be married.

The city is beautiful and, naturally, incredibly romantic. We walked the 3km from the hotel to town in the afternoon sun, passing small lizards left, right and centre, and soon found ourselves at the castle. There wasn't a lot to it, but the views were very pretty. We walked further into town and stumbled across a very famous balcony in a very famous house that belonged to a very famous young lady named Giulietta. The doors and walls leading to the house were absolutely covered in declarations of love and the gates were covered with brightly coloured padlocks inscribed with people's names.

Amazingly, even after looking for snowstorms in all the touristy shops and seeing THE balcony, John still didn't realise why I had wanted to visit Verona, and assumed it was something to do with the castle or the arena, which were his highlights. I couldn't find any snowstorms that had the castle or anything on them, apart from Romeo and Juliet, and the ones I did find were so expensive that I began to wonder if snowstorms are even worth all the hassle!

The sun was still strong (28 degrees apparently) and we "mutually" decided it was ice-cream time. We had Nutella and Crema Biscotti flavours. While eating ice-cream we watched out for nuns, seeing only two in the end, one dressed all in blue and one with a big suitcase. After our short break, we walked past the arena and down towards the river to stroll hand-in-hand in the early evening sun.

On our evening supermarket adventure, this time to look for peanut butter (there was none, but there was hazelnut butter), we saw in the toiletries aisle milkshake-scented and tea-scented body spray! I couldn't help but buy the tea one, mmm tea.

That night we watched the Italy - Netherlands match and felt glad that we hadn't decided to go out to watch it with the Italians of Verona.

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