There aren’t really words that can describe the mosiacs at Ravenna. The colors, detail, vibrancy and immediacy after 1500 are simply astounding....
Today was the gondola ride. Don’t get me wrong, I loved it, it was awesome amazing (more later). I almost fell into the canal. You see, they are...
Yesterday we arrived at Ravenna after a stormy day in Padova. Ravenna was bigger than I expected, and the lady at the train station ticket booth was angrier...
After the splendor of Venice & Verona, Padua was a gritty return to reality. Basically, it is an 800 year old college town- like Columbus, OH with...
Padova is big, that’s the first thing I didn’t expect. You can’t leave a small painted cozy town like Verona and land in Padova without...
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...
Wait, wrong play. Anyway we’re off to Padova (or Padua to us in Ameri-land) to see the Scrovegni chapel and the Palazzo Bo. Galileo taught at the...
Shakespeare wasn’t exactly known for his field research. Since he never came out this way, it’s a pretty well acknowledged fact that Verona’s...
Here we are in Verona taking advantage of our 6 hours of free internet that came with our room. I got a great deal on a pretty swank place, there are some...