Day 16 - French Romeos

Great View

Great Walk

Great Museums

First day in Italy. We’re here in lovely Verona. It was so hot. It took us awhile to find our hostel, but we did, so we ditched our stuff. Then we took a walk up past Castel San Pietro (or something like that). Heading down towards the river, we stopped at the Roman Theatre and Archeological museum. It was cool to see how much has survived to the present day. My favourite part was the mosaics. I want to have a mosaic floor in my house someday. And a fountain...with turtles in it.  Next we crossed the bridge into the city centre to have lunch. We ate at Cappa Cafe. I had pizza, mmm...On our way there we saw three boys who were quite attractive except for certain unfortunate facial hair. When we arrived at our chosen cafe, we found that they were already there. We passed them twice more in the city. After lunch we walked around, Dominique changed money and I bought a keychain. Then we went to see the Giardino Gusti. It was 6 euros to see some gardens which weren’t even that nice. But at the back there was a path up to a really nice terrace and a tower which took us up even higher above the city. They also had a pretty cool fountain with two fish and three turtles in it. Then we sat by the river with our feet in, it was really cold, but it felt sooo nice! Afterwards, we stopped at an internet cafe called Realta Virtuele. They had some really cool computer mice. We headed back to our hostel to put our stuff actually in our room and to shower. Soon after, the guys from the city centre showed up. I think we made an impression because the one guy even nodded a ‘hi’ when we passed them. We decided to call them the French Romeos, because we heard them speaking French and we met them in Verona. We ate pasta, french beans (which, as it turns out, are just green beans), and a chicken breast. Then I kicked Dominique’s butt at speed again.