Yay it's Birthday! Yay french toast! Yay Verona!
What a lovely way to start the day, waking up late and lazily enjoying home made french toast and then setting off for the fair city of Verona. As soon as you turn the corner and view La Porta Nueva di Verona, you can see why Shakespeare chose to write about this beautiful little city. I'm sure many things have changed, but some things are still standing. There is a castle and moat; a smaller version if the colosseum (which still holds concerts!) ans so many intricate little streets to lose oneself.
The sole purpose of today's trip was to visit the Juliet's "balcony" - which i belive was constructed for the purpose of tourism in 1936. However, there really were two families by the names of Capulets (Capello/Capuleti) and Montagues (Montecchi), however neither of them had children named Romeo and Juliet. The house that resides on Via Capello is indeed the family residence and now has a balcony and statue in Juliet's honour. Also, there is the Club of Juliet, made famous by the film, Letter's to Juliet. This club was founded in 1972 and began answering letters that had been written to Juliet and left near the house. It is not as romantic as the film, there is no stone wall with letters place into tiny crevases, but simply you can leave your letter on the writing table inside the house (6 euros entry to the house) or actually walk up to the Club's 2nd level office and place it in a little post box. I opted for the latter, and glad i did. I was able to meet on of Juliet's "secretaries".
A very short distance from the house is located a beautiful square, Piazza delle Erbe, with a small market of venetian masks and other wares. It was starting to rain (again) so we walked back to the train station and onwards to Bologna and my birthday bash at Cafe Paris!
more pics to come
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