Verona - A non-love story

"Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents̓ strife.
The fearful passage of their death-marked love
And the continuance of their parents̓ rage,
Which but their children̓s end, naught could remove,
Is now the two-hours̓traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend."

We left Milan on the 21st, with Verona as our new target. Our plan was to spend a day in this romantic little town, and then take the train to Venice in the afternoon. It might seem odd to go a pair of friends to the most romantic cities in the world, but since my travel partner is the most cynical person in the world I think its OK.

Verona succumbed to our expectations. Juliet's balcony was crawling with tourists but the rest of the town was pretty nice, especially all the back-alleys.