Baglioni Due Torri Hotel Verona

I can't believe I've been in Italy for over two months now! It feels like much, much longer. How can so much happen in such a short amount of time? So let's see...the week after Barcelona, we carved pumpkins. Usually Italians just eat the pumpkins, so to have a jack-o-lantern was a novel thing. I asked the boys if they would like to help gut the pumpkins, but they were too grossed out by the slimy-ness (sliminess?) so I did them myself. They took them to ...

... walk quick as I did so, and he said something to me as I passed, but my heart was pounding so loud in my ears I didn't hear what it was. I practically ran back to the castle, but luckily, he didn't follow this time. Once I was on the right road my heartbeat went back to normal and I was able to enjoy the day again. I bought my ticket home and sat on a bench with Coldplay in my ears and the sun on my back and a thought hit me-who is this girl ...

... across the square and to enter the cathedral. It was crazy with people walking through the water (getting wet), people pushing in and police actually trying to get some order. We decided to get out of that area quickly as everything was overpriced. We headed towards the Rialto Bridge and came across toilets which cost 1.50 Euros each person which apparently is the going rate. So for 4 of us, it cost $12 AUD just for us to go to ...

... painting in them were common. I’m not really into Italian art, but there were a couple of Bellini’s paintings which were a standout. The castle itself was impressive, including the bridge that crossed the river from the castle. After we left the castle, we searched for a kid’s playground that we read about, plus Tara wanted to go to the toilet so we thought there would be one there. When we found it, the playground was really suitable for small ...

It was still raining so we got a taxi to the train station as we were heading to Verona in Italy. A funny thing happened at the station- we were in the supermarket there when the security thing beeped as someone went out of the shop- we looked and it was a nun leaving the shop- the shoppers all were smiling. As the trained climbed across Brenner Pass, the rain had turn to snow but as we got into Italy the weather cleared ...

David and I started the morning with a quick walk to a local café for brioche and café (I had a coca cola light Yum!) and then drove to the city of Verona. We started our trip with a lunch of caprese salad and pizza. We then walked through the city to take in the sights. We had gelato for a quick lunch dessert before our trip back to Reggiolo. We have a dinner planned with Lorelei ...

... I told her. I just sooo love fountains! And Mai just sooo love to go to Venice.. impunto! Just so u know, our family's namesake, (de la) Fuente, means.. well, u ...

We made our way into the depths of Europe, starting at romantic Verona a day after Italy won the world cup! The trip there was great, beautiful mountainside villages and vinyards stretching for miles! Hotel we found was lovely they had huge fresh flower bouquets in reception every morning! An ...

... idea of working in context is pretty cool. To me I think when you are able to build within certain limitations is architecture. If you do whatever you want, it doesn't earn in my book as much respect as if you do work with bondaries. Scarpa does that. After taking a tour of castelvecchio we ate lunch and had the entire afternoon to ourselves ...