Italia, Italia! We've just spent 2 wonderful weeks in Italy and have dubbed it one of our favourite places. We split our fortnight into three segments - Northern Italy, Tuscany, and Roma. Here is some of the highlights of Northern Italy: Verona, Venice, Milan. Tuscany and Roma to come soon!
After driving through never-ending vineyards just inside the Italian boarder we settled into Romeo and Juliet's home town of Verona. Inside the walls of Verona we found colourful buildings with balconies at each window, glorious gelato and soaked in the sunshine. In particular, we loved walking along the riverbanks and seeing the different shapes the buildings made, listening to boys call to their brothers ("Giovanni!") and eating plenty of pizza. Our first day was their final day of a spring festival where we saw local produce for sale and in cooking demonstrations, as well as art in the street and some traditional drummers.
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| Juliet's Balcony |
We zipped across to Venice for a day and wandered across bridges, enjoyed watching the gondolas and got lost in the maze that forms the city. After walking in circles a couple of times we stopped for our first proper Italian meal of cannelloni and seafood beside the grande canal. Later, we listened to buskers play accordions and cellos and got our first sunburn!
While in the north we also visited Milan. For those who love Prada, Versache, Louis Vuitton and all things fashion - Milan is for you. But we aren't really those people. We got a kick out of walking into the beautiful building that houses these stores (below), but that's end of our enjoyment of big city fashion. Milan did show us one of the biggest cathedrals in Europe, and to make the most of our day we found a large park to make daisy chains (Ally) behind the 'Palace'. Milan was filled with very busy people wearing very fancy clothes and running between their important jobs... and maybe it was just a bit of a shock after our lazy strolls through small-town Verona. Oh well, can't love 'em all.
We've since decided that Verona & Venice are our two favourite cities of the trip :) The colour, relaxed atmosphere, music and food wooed us well. More of Italy to come!
p.s. we're now checking out Greece
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