From Verona, we hopped in a BlaBla car with three other people for 14€ total to head 1.5 hours to a town most known for its Milan-based airport…Bergamo. It would have cost 20 by bus so this was the best deal, plus ride sharing is always way more interesting. (Side note: We have yet to figure out why this oh-so-obvious…

Continue ReadingBergamo, Italy: a Little Medieval Delight

Ahhhh….fair Verona, where we laid out backpacks. Indeed, Shakespeare chose quite the alluring set for his tragic love saga of “Romeo & Juliet.” Funnily, we learned on our free walking tour that in fact, Shakespeare had never even visited fair Verona. Ah well, guess he got lucky. And so did we. What would follow during our three days in Verona,…

Continue ReadingFair Verona: Where we Lay our Scene…and Backpacks

Somehow we landed in Italia. To be honest, it’s not somewhere either of us had been rushing to return to after our initial separate forays in our 20’s. Neither one of us had extraordinary experiences back then. To be honest, they were both a bit sour, but granted, we had only waded into the most touristed places possible…Rome, Venice and…

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