We're just leaving now. Its an hour train ride back to Venice. It's a gloriously sunny day outside and I'm in a gloriously sunny mood!
I got up this morning and grabbed a ride to Verona, the city of Romeo and Juliet. I've spent the day walking around. The only thing I really knew about Verona was, well, that it was where Romeo and Juliet take place! Turns out that there's more going on in this city...but not too much more.
Verona has it's own mini-Colloseum, of all things! It's called the Arena here, but it really looks like a better-kept, albeit smaller version of the one in Rome. It's also got a few canals of it's own a la Venice, but the water moves too fast for gondolas and you're allowed to drive in this city, making cars a better option than water taxis anyway. There were still tons of tourists everywhere.
The best part about the city was Juliet's Balcony. It has no reason to be called that, no historic Juliet having lived there, but it's on a house belonging to a family whose name sort of resembled Capolete, so......insert huge tourist trap here. There's a courtyard beneath the balcony and the walls are literally coved in graffiti from thousands of people writing their initials in hearts, pasting up love letters with gum, and trying to capture some of the romance from Juliet in their own relationships. It was really cool! Especially for the romantic!
The courtyard has a statue of Juliette in the middle of it. I hope it's some sort of tradition for people to go up and rub her right boobie, because otherwise she's being ridiculously mo rested and has been for some time by the. Look of how rubbed down that spot is!
Maybe there's just a curse of cloudiness over Venice right now, because it was cloudily when I left there but sunny when I got to Verona, and now that I'm leaving Verona it's beginning to get cloudy again. I hope not!
Tomorrow is registration day at Boulder! At any time after 8am (4pm for me!) I can register for my fall classes! Hurray! I hope all the other engineering kids sleep in and I get all my top picks. I've got another day (that being tomorrow) of being in Venice before catching a train to Milan...and Andreina! She gets into Milan at about 3:30pm (I think, I'll have to look back at her ticket to be sure) and the bus from the airport should get her into the city at about 4:15-4:45-ish. Just a few hours until then!
Andreina is going to be so jet-lagged when she first gets in! This sounds like the place to visit if you really liked the play...
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