{"id":13342,"date":"2025-05-09T20:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=13342"},"modified":"2025-05-09T20:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:34:18","slug":"verona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2025\/05\/09\/verona\/","title":{"rendered":"Verona"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We road a Frecca from Milan to Verona Porto Nuovo station,\u00a0 our apartment was near the big Porta Nuova \"\"<\/a>city gate, just a short walk from the train station.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a very nice place with a large living room.\u00a0 We have not had livings rooms in the apartments we have stayed in till this one.\u00a0 Most just had uncomfortable chairs in the kitchen area.\u00a0 This place was large.\u00a0\u00a0 The first evening there we had great pizza, but the ladies said their pasta wasn’t up to snuff.\u00a0\u00a0 Kathy and I went back the next night for pizza.\u00a0 It was great again!\u00a0\u00a0 Note to sell, ask them to cut the pizza to make it easier to eat, otherwise they do not cut it, requiring you to find a knife somewhere.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The next morning we headed to the Arena, at what is now the center of the old town.\u00a0\u00a0 Looks a lot like a short version of the Colosseo,\u00a0 but was missing a lot of the \"\"<\/a>external cladding as it had collapsed during a long ago earthquake.\u00a0\u00a0 From there we headed out to look for lunch as we weren’t wanting fish and chips.\u00a0\u00a0 We found this great little spot with a large outside patio covered by very big umbrellas.\u00a0 Kathy was not\u00a0 \"\"<\/a>interested in the 4 P’s for lunch and got a nice looking salad.\u00a0 I ordered a Panini,\u00a0 one of the P’s.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pretty good,\u00a0 when finished we were just a short walk to the Arch where the walking tour starts.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Had a great walking tour with a really good guide that explained all the history of the area.\u00a0\u00a0 This picture is of the gate where we met the guide.\u00a0\u00a0 Verona is cool town, but the Romeo and Gillette stuff is all a scam.\u00a0 As they were fictional.\u00a0 It was incredible to me that the gullible folks paid to stand in line to see the balcony.<\/p>\n

Walked over to lunch, Kathy had the no PPPP lunch.<\/p>\n

Wandered over to the 2 hour walking tour.\u00a0\u00a0 The guide was very good.\u00a0 We visited lots of landmarks including the Romeo and Gillette house. (all fictional)\u00a0 You will see the ruts in the roadway below the gate from carts and roman chariots.<\/p>\n

Ended tour an walked to the bus stop to get back home, but a different bus appeared and we got on by mistake.\u00a0 Ended up a good distance from the apartment so we had a 15 minute walk instead of the 4 minute walk if we had waited a few more minutes more and took the bus that went right behind our apartment.\u00a0\u00a0 But because of that bus stopping far away we did get to stop and sit-down at an outdoor bar and spend some money on wine and bottled beer as our dogs were barking after walking a lot that day.<\/p>\n

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We road a Frecca from Milan to Verona Porto Nuovo station,\u00a0 our apartment was near the big Porta Nuova city gate, just a short walk from the train station.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a very nice place with a large living room.\u00a0 We have not had livings rooms in the apartments we have stayed in till this … <\/p>\n

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