Aries Vicenza

partie de venise en train a midi pour se rendre a verone en une heure. une fois a verone, nous avons marcher la ville de long en large pour y voir, une arene romaine, encore en bonne etat et meme parfaois utiliser pour des spectacles d'opera. ensuite nous somme aller voir la fausse maison de juliette puis en suie nous avons monte la tour du palais au centre de la ville. 368 marche ...

... I think the oldest building I've ever been in - it was built in 30 AD (that's a 2 digit year, not a typo)

Castelvechio was also pretty cool and had some great art inside.

Stopped at Osteria Verona in the main square for some predinner drinks and had some awesome house wine before going to La Taverna Di Via Stella for dinner. Really nice place with friendly staff and great food. Had ...

......... So apparently the title is a quote from Romeo and Juliet...... You learn something new every day!

So we only stopped here for a couple of hours as a rest stop but it was pretty cool.

Verona is a very pretty town that is famous for Juliet Capulet's balcony and the entrance to the balcony is where all the lovey dovey couples write ...

... to tell me that. I asked so many questions of so many different people until I was sure I was in the right place. Just to double, triple, quadruple check I asked a guy at the stop if I was really at the right place because his ticket looked like mine. He was a big guy with a beer and he was just tickled that I was American and had talked to him. On the bus ride he called everyone he knew and couldn't stop laughing hysterically at the "ragazza di ...

Sat Sunny day took the vaporetta & a bus to garage in Mestre to pick up Sue’s car. Drove past villas to Asolo (hill country) near Dolomites. Walked up and down medieval town, great views of fortress & terraced hills. Lunch at Due Mori pasta & fagioli, pasta w/mushrooms, sausage & polenta, nice white fireplace with copper pans etc. party of alpine soldiers having lunch. Continued visit in Asolo, left 4pm for tour of surrounding hills, homeward bound.

... were very tasty though. But luckily their moustaches were all burnt off!

Venezia was the same, just alot windier, colder and more wet.


We went on to Verona, and wow! Verona is the most beautiful town I had seen in Italy (at this point). I cannot describe what it was about the place, it was just, so different to anywhere else. It had ...

An early morning as we were heading to Venice for the day which was a bit over an hour by train from Verona. Both Greg and I had been before and it hadn't been our favourite place, but we wanted the girls to at least see it. We had warned them that we wouldn’t be going on a gondola as it is over 75 Euros ($150 AUD) for a ride. Katelyn said that we had already been on a gondola ride in Las Vegas so we didn’t have to ...

A day to explore Verona so we started at the Arena where we bought a Verona Card which covers Verona's major attractions and proved to be good value as kids only then had to pay 1 Euro to get into whatever we decided to do. We usually avoid these as with the kids we usually don’t rush from one place to the other. The Arena was pretty impressive- it is a Roman Amphitheatre which is used today for traditional operas such as Aida and also other concerts ...

... over the river on one of the beautiful bridges and wove our way into the back streets of the city.  The old wall surrounded us and buildings with a history dating back to Magellan flanked us on both sides.  I felt a sense of sadness when my thoughts turned to leaving.  There is still so much to see and to learn.  But the mysteries of the city will have to remain mysteries perhaps to be discovered on another visit. Enjoy the pictures.  It is only a ...

... pushed down the table to the scruffy, hungry backpackers [that's us] and we are happy to clean plates. we finish off the meal with grappa [an asskicker of an appertif] sorbetto [a limoncella and sorbet smoothie of sorts], and limoncella. yum. the next afternoon, Jonathan and Rebecca take us to a local vineyard for a wine tasting. afterwards, we enjoy a few bottles of wine outside ...