Saturday, May 19, 2012

Verona

The next day we had planned a trip over to Verona,Italy the setting for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Kellie and I thought it would be fun to go here after seeing the movie letters to Juliet. However Verona was not quite what we expected. When we got there by train it looked just like any other city. We got ahold of a map and made our towards "Juliet's house". On our way we Passed the arena there which was under a little construction but still looked very old and historic and so did the rest of this part of the city. As we continued down some very narrow streets we had finally found our way to Juliet's house. It wasn't quite what we were anticipating, it had writing All over the walls and it was very crowded with people taking pictures with statue of Juliet. We didn't do much else here and only stayed for 3 hours. If I could go back and re-do our itinerary I would have skipped the trip to Verona and went to cinque terre. The next morning we were off on a pretty long trip to cinque terre!

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  1. We loved the contrast of old and new in Verona, and we knew in advance that Juliet's wall was a bit commercial. Agreed that Cinque Terre offers much more though. Anywhere in Italy is pretty amazing....

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  2. Haha yes we experienced that, but a lot of the buildings were pretty beautiful which was amazing to see :)

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