So, time to catch up. That's what my Current International Issues class is good for!
So, let´s go back a couple weeks to the wonderful time of Verona. This was such an adorable day. Seriously!! Sadie and I had decided that we should meet up and spend the weekend in Verona and Milan. I had a flight into Milan and then I was going to take the train to meet up with her in Verona. I sent her my train schedule and then got in the plane without really making plans beyond that. I am a genius. It was a wonderful flight and I made it to the train station without any problem but then the drama set in. I had to transfer trains and the big problem was that my first train was delayed. This meant I was going to miss my transfer and Sadie would have no idea what had happened. This is when it finally set in that we had no backup plan. Oops! We had no way to contact each other and basically we were screwed. Haha! Such a gong show. But, miracle of all miracles, my second train was delayed too!! Thank you universe!!!
I made it to the station and then started looking for Sadie. But she was nowhere to be found. So, I decided that I would try and find an internet connection and check Facebook. I really have no idea how this worked out but as I was just at the point of possibly starting to panic Sadie started working towards me!!! Miracle!
We went and dumped our stuff off at the adorable little B&B (cross that off my list of things to do this year) and then went out to explore Verona. This place is gorgeous. Seriously, as we walked into the center of Verona, we both just gasped. It is this quaint little town with colored houses all lined up and trees everywhere and it is just beautiful. I don´t even know how to describe it in a way that you can understand. It is like taking the adorable little town in the fairytales where the princesses live and making it a real place. Definitely a good setting for Romeo and Juliet although I have no idea how anyone would want to feud and fight in such a beautiful place. Seriously.
We spent most of the day wandering. We found different churches that were beautiful as always with paintings and sculptures and intricately designed roofs. We went to the main square and wandered the market and found Romeo´s house which is quite manly. We didn´t go inside though. After getting lost a couple times we finally found Juliet´s house. SOOOOO CUTE!!!! We had heard it really isn´t worth 6 Euros to go inside but that didn´t stop us from taking pictures of the balcony and the statue of Juliet. Apparently it is good luck to grab Juliet´s boob, so we did. We then wrote on Juliet´s wall with the billions of other signatures. Obviously I devoted my love to Leonardo DiCaprio. There is now a heart that says Randi + Romeo (Leo DiCaprio) written on the wall in Verona. I am such a 14 year old girl and totally okay with that.
After this we wandered some more. Seriously, living in Europe makes you appreciate the beauty of aimlessly wandering and discovering new and beautiful things and getting totally lost all the time and not really caring. We walked along the river for awhile and soaked up the sun and at one point we found a church that had a quilt display on. It was hilarious! We spent a good half hour wandering through the display looking at these super awesome quilts and I thought of my grandmother. We also found a piano concert going on and peeked in for awhile.
In the end, we headed back to the B&B after we stopped to get some ridiculously delicious Kebabs. Seriously. Donairs in Canada are delicious but when you are over here and closer to the real thing…. They are just better! They even put fries IN the kebab! YUM!!! We sat in the hostel and played card games and then went to sleep.
The next morning we woke up and had THE best breakfast ever! Seriously. It wasn´t anything special but there was just soooooo much of it! Toast and jam and honey and yogurt and juice and milk and cereal and croissants and pastries and oranges and other fruits and it just went on and on and on! We ate a ton, threw some snacks for later in our bags and then ran to catch the first train of the morning. We got to Milan, dumped our bags, and then we were off to shop and explore. See the Milan post for info on Milan… this is getting kinda long.
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