Venice and Verona

It is Thursday afternoon and we just boarded our train to Verona. Yesterday was absolutely amazing, we spent the entire day downtown Venice. We started with strolling down the grand canals, and the side canals, and stopped along the way for some delicious pizza and superb red wine. We spent the afternoon taking pictures and wandering around with no destination.

We bought some fedoras to blend in with the locals and protect ourselves from the hot sun... And we couldn't help but buy these two beautiful dresses we saw walking by a shop window.

We enjoyed fruit while walking along the side streets and exploring the little corners of the city. After we got tired of walking we took a water bus to Piazza San Marco and wandered around there for the afternoon. Once again, our legs grew tired beneath us so we sat down on the water, had a few beers, and wrote out a handful of postcards.

We took the bus back to our campground and enjoyed ourselves and had a peasant's dinner of salami, cheese, and crackers. We woke up this morning and had to check out of our hostel. We went back downtown and enjoyed gelato for breakfast and had a seat at an Internet cafe and had an espresso. We sat there for an hour or so and right when we were getting ready to leave, two guys we met in Paris strolled in. They were some of the few people we really connected with, and it was the best feeling to see them again.

We enjoyed catching up with what the other has been doing since we departed in Paris. We had a bottle of beer with them and then the four of us headed to a park down the road Shelby and I had come across yesterday.

We spent the entire afternoon laying down in the shade with them, talking, and listening to them play their ukulele. After four or so hours we decided we should probably get going and had to sy the dreaded goodbye.


To four of us may be in Florence at the same time, we hope to all go camping together at a place they have researched. It would be great to see some familiar faces again. Enjoyed ourselves a relaxing day with our new friends, and now we are off to Verona.


Ciao!

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We are on our way to Rome!

We had a pleasant time in Verona. Our hostel was a bit strange. It was a University, and there was a hospital attached. As soon as we arrived a man was being transported out to an ambulance on a stretcher... Not the best welcome. Again, we were supposed o be in a 10 bed mixed dorm but had a private room instead. We were tired Once we got there and just got some food and drinks at a few different places in town. There wasn't much to do around where we were staying, so we just stayed close to home that night.

The next day we ventured into the city. We had no access to Internet so we had no idea where Juliet's house was. We found a map and located the house, it seemed to be pretty far away so we took a bus to the main station and looked for street stops that were close to the house. We hopped on a bus hoping that we were headed the right way. After some map studying we found our way to her house! We didn't go inside, we just wandered around the courtyard, saw the balcony, and took a picture with the statue of Juliet. We spent the rest of the day wandering around, and stopping for wine and water occasionally.

We made it back to the hostel that night and met a couple from Australia we spent some time talking to. We just hung out the two of us and woke up this morning and packed.

We have been traveling all day. We left around 930 this morning for the train station, got ona train to Padova where we had a 2 hour layover. And have just boarded the train to Rome. The ride shouldn't be too bad though, it's only a 3.5ish hour ride and we have chocolate and each other to keep us happy and occupied!

Talk to you in Roma!

Ciao