Didn’t sleep very well, there was a street light outside the window and the curtains weren’t heavy so the room was light, plus the walls were thin so I could hear all the movements and activities of the other guests.
The breakfast wasn’t good either – no hot food, just cereal and yoghurt.
Checked out and walked to the train station to wait. The first train of the trip. I prefer trains to buses, much more comfortable.
Got on the train, it was quite busy and sat and relaxed. Had a bit of a panic when I thought we’d missed the station where we had to change trains but looked at the map and realised we changed in Venice where the train terminated.
Got off at Venice, 2 trains in the next 10 minutes to Verona so jogged to the platform to get the next one. It was quite full and looked like a commuter train – the seats were packed close and it was a double decker train. The trip was only about an hour so not bad.
2 hours later we pulled into Verona having stopped at every station in northern Italy.
Walked about 20 minutes to the hotel, discovered that we don’t have a bathroom in the room, it’s shared. Luckily we’re the only people staying, so I won’t frighten any other guests if I have to go to the toilet in the middle of the night.
Walked into the main part of the town – a Roman coliseum, and lots of magnificent buildings. Walked around more, visited Juliet’s balcony. The whole centre was packed, tons of tourists as well as locals with their dogs.
Found a restaurant on Tripadvisor. We shared a seafood platter that had shell fish, prawns, calamari and pasta that was very good. I had pork with ham, truffle and almond, Song had pike with polenta. I also had a beer.
The restaurant was playing some of my favourite Italian tunes.
My meal was a massive pork chop covered with loads of ham and almonds and some potatoes and it defeated me, I couldn’t eat it all. I had wanted an ice cream on the way back but no way was that happening.
Back to the hotel, sleep.
