Giberti Verona

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 ...

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We figured we only needed to spend 1 night in Verona as there wasn't a lot to do, plus the lack of any hostels meant we had to stay in a hotel (La Magnolia). We were right.
Got to Verona from Venice early afternoon and wandered around town. The Arena was awesome. So huge and overwhelming inside ...

......... 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 ...

... the station in Reggio Emilia. Michael lived some distance from the station and had told us to get a taxi there. So right off the bat I spent money. We got to his apartment where Meri was waiting. The three of us went out around town and I found peanut butter at a grocery store (I was so excited!!!!!). We killed time watching Office and Family Guy episodes then got another taxi to the place where Michael was, it was a club or something in another town ...

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 ...

... those events are run by a third party. So hundreds of visitors showing up to visit the arena - including us - were out of luck. Insert Italian Shrug (TM) here.

Verona's touristization makes Salzburg look downright quaint. They were litterally wall to wall in this place. There wasn't a street untouched by the bus hordes. Tacky Romeo and Juliet tourist trap? Check. Row after row of ****** bistros and ...

Arriving in Peschiera del Garda station the heat is remarkable, We sit on a bench under a tree waiting for the taxi to arrive. Nothing turns up for 45mins! we speak to the local newsagents and it turns out we have to call for one, turns up 15mins later and we arrive at the family camping resort San Benedetto. The only place to pitch a tent is next to the campsite playing field on ...

... We also ordered some lasagna and pasta at Brek Brek it's a self-service cheap but awesome italian reataurant with whole-hearty Italian food. Now, This place has ...

... and industrial, but as we got closer to the town centre, we began to see the charm that Shakespeare had talked about. The beautiful architecture and bustling street life with beautiful people blended with modern designer stores, street performers, art and sculpture to make the town centre a buzzing, intoxicating place, even in the heat of the day (high 30s Celcius). We made our way past the Roman era arena, surrounded by people in gladiator ...

... The woman at the reception was especially pleasant and gave us a map with everything we would need to see and told us what to skip. We started in the old town with the castlevechio and walked across the medieval bridge into town. We then checked out the third largest roman Coliseum in the world where they still hold concerts to this day. Pearl Jam played there earlier this summer and we ...