Verona

A short inexpensive train trip from Vicenza, our home base, is Verona.  Among many things Verona is made memorable for are two Shakespearean plays, ‘Two Gentlemen form Verona’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’, the later about two teenage lovers full of angst.

Arriving by train, a bus will take you to the ancient Colosseum in the city centre.  The structure is smaller than the Colosseum in Rome but is better preserved.  On our visit the Colosseum surface level was an ice sheet for a skating exhibition filming, the sunny temperature was 28 degrees Celsius.  Delving further into the city we experienced many more churches and squares.  Churches built upon the ruins of earlier churches, but still functioning.  Approaching the river we eventually crossed over a famous foot bridge, resurrected from the river after a World War II bombing raid, to reach the Roman Theatre ruins.  There we climbed to the top for a magnificent view back at the river foot bridge and the city.  On our way home we passed by ‘Juliet,s’ balcony, made famous from

“Romeo, Romeo where fore art thou?”
“Up here, I’ve decided to join a high wire troupe.”

Shakespeare’s play.  Yes and we enjoyed our daily gelato treat before we ventured back on the train.

If the play was written for pigeons.