MY Town FSO – The Graffiti of Verona

This morning we are no longer in Verona, but have moved on to Arezzo.  It time tomorrow I will show you some of Arezzo.  I have missed a lot of what I have in Verona and area and will go back and show you more as I can, for this morning just one short note for the FSO.
In general Verona is a very clean town, at least the ancient city is kept very clean.  As we walked up and down and around and around, I saw very few instances of “writing on the walls”.  Lenira wanted very much to see the house of Juliet (Casa di Giulietta).  There were 3 GAZILLION people inside that little courtyard and centuries, well at least one season, of love letters covered the outer yard.

   
I would say that what I saw here was love notes, written on the bells in the tower, on water pipes, in a small corner IN A CHURCH was love notes. To write on the bell someone (a romantic or foolish young man?) would have to stand on a 3 foot railing - protecting older and smarter romantics from a 4 story drop to the bells below - and reach out over this precipice to leave a sign of his (undying) love through time.

Good Morning from Verona

My days are getting a little confused.  I wanted to write this last night but just collapsed instead.  Today is Thursday. I write that for my own benefit – coming here you loose a day of reference and then they all start running together in an orgy of food and new sights. On Tuesday we did a walking tour of Old Verona.  Went up in the tower (Torre Dei Lamberti). Camillo took the elevator – I took the stairs, all 368.  I went down by elevator though, the challenge is going up and my point had been made. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                       We ate lunch in La Taverna Di Via Stella (Osteria con cucina tipica) Via Stella, 5/c – 37121 Verona- This restaurant gets a 9 – only because I am holding out with my ‘10’ rating.   For the two of us the lunch was 8 Euro more than yesterday’s rated‘6’, but we had a bottle of -- see below – an antipasti, shared grilled lamb chops with a veggie plate, and a salami di chocolate….all top notch for 46 Euro. This lunch in Rio would have been R$200.00 and the veggies would not have included radichio (see above) which I have never seen in Brazil good or otherwise. I’ll write about yesterday in a separate post so we don’t get mixed up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello from Verona :

   I was going to post HELLO yesterday but we had computer (adaptor) problems which were only solved this morning, and now I am a day behind in telling you our story. 

Better at least get started. 
The trip was uneventful.  Plane left Rio on time, arrived in Paris on time, the little puddle jumper to Verona left out of terminal 2G so we made the right choice when buying the tickets  - giving ourselves 4 hours between flights.  Two just wouldn't have made it.  Our flight out of Rio landed and parked on the tarmac and we had to load onto a bus and be taken around and around the airport (seems that way) and then unload down on the ground floor.  Finding our way out of that mess and to the bathrooms.... then to 2G which is a bus ride away, around and around the airport - we were on the ground about 2.5 hours before going through security at 2G.  This section  has  a new, and very comfortable lounge to wait for your flight, but without services like money exchange or choice of eating places.  But it was a comfortable wait.
The little plane, and I am not exaggerating when I call it little, carried about 45 people.  It had one seat on the left and two seats on the right side of the plane. There was only luggage racks for very a small carry on on the right side.  the Plane was an EMB 145 – a Brazilian made plan.  Considering that Brazilian tennis shoes last 3 months at the most I was a little nervous as we took off. Don’t yell at me!
By 7:00 in the evening we were checked into the hotel, had had showers and were back out on the streets,
   getting our bearings just as the sun was setting.  We bought fresh peaches and apricots at a street market to have with our breakfast, walked all the way down to the river and on our way back ate dinner in our first ‘Italia Profunda’ restaurant.
Trattoria Colonna – via Tezonne, 1-37122 Verona – We rated it a 6 - nice Tortiini & Brodo, table wine was fine, service fine, baked veal was commercially prepared with gravy…. no didn’t do it for me. 

Bread was BAD – price was okay for what we ate.  Six is probably being generous.  It may move down as we have other places to compare.
Rating words - Very good (nice), good (nice), fine, doesn’t do it for me, bad.