Verona

Friday was a write-off as Dan was ill so we spent the rest of our arrival day in the room, not venturing into the town until Saturday.

Buses are stupid! We couldn't buy the ticket on the bus unless we had exact change as the ticket machines are picky. This means two 1.50s (not 3 euros for both of us....). Tickets can be all bought at Tabacconists and some shops, but these all close over dinner for about 3 hours. In the end we broke our change at the one bar that was open at lunch - which didn't sell tickets. We got on the bus, found the ticket machine impossible and I nearly went through the window when the driver decided to break sharply. In the end, after two people tried to help us, we got sorted and got to Verona.

Verona is pretty, but unfortunately for us it kept raining. We went up the hill to the old Ampitheatre to look out over the town and then mooched down to 'Juliet's House'. You can leave messages to Juliet on the wall (why?) - I wrote my name and then the pen ran out...

On Sunday we went to the castle to have a look round, crossing the bridges to look at the pretty violent river. The weather seems to change really fast in Italy - it's sunny one minute and next thing you see a mass of grey cloud on the horizon - sure enough, we got rained on again. We waited for it to stop and then headed back to the arena to have another look at it. The whole area was weirdly packed with shrill teenage girls who kept singing. I didn't think owt of it until I noticed a few separate groups were wearing 'One Direction' (puke) t shirts. Turns out there was a non-direction gig in the Arena that night -EURGH.

Anyway - a pretty place, would have been better if we'd had the weather. :)