Loading...Verona lays itself out along the Adige River quite nicely. The bridges that take you across give you romantic views in every direction. After the Roman Theatre, we made our way across the river on foot this time, back to the main Piazzas and our hotel. Along the way we stopped at Sant’ Anastasia mostly to see the Gobbi- little goblin carvings that hold up the holy-water fonts. Unfortunately the inside of Anastasia was under heavy renovation scaffolding, and were only able to see one of the Gobbi.
Next it was back to the hotel for some serious foot soaking. After that and a shoe switch, it was back to the marble sidewalks and on to Ristorante Greppia. Here is my post about dinner, which I’ll also quote below:
OK, so may of you seemed concerned about the horse. I too was worried. The restaurant we went to that night in Verona only had cavallo on the Italian language menu, it was missing from the English version. But, what they did have which was almost as bad was a rolling cart of boiling meat. Thank God they didn’t roll that sucker out until after I had eaten. Eric narrated for me, as the cart was behind me but apparently they pulled a tongue out and sliced it for the table. The smell alone was enough to finish me off.
Fortunately, prior to the rolling cart of smelly simmering manzo, I enjoyed very much my tortellini in broth and my ravioli. Eric got the gnocchi (which was the bast gnocchi I ever tasted, they served it in mascarpone cheese on radicchio). For his secondi, he got fish mush on polenta (which is also a kind of mush)…
After dinner we strolled around Verona under the full moon. It’s difficult to find a bad side of Verona, sure the bus system is confusing and the marble sidewalks maim the high-arched among us, but day or night, up-close or far away this is one city that deserves to be called romantic. And not because of Romeo and Juliet- I would argue that’s a play more about hormones than love- but because of the quiet squares, the balconies, the faded paintings on all the buildings. I’m not exactly sure why, but it stimulates that part of your brain that wants to reach out for your partner’s hand, slow down a little, and sigh.
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