Last day in Verona

Today was our last day in Verona and we actually managed to pack quite a bit in. We packed everything up and left it at the apartment while we went back to a few places that we had trouble seeing due to the number of tourists, so we were up and out pretty early.

The first place we went was to Castelvecchio just over the road as Lesley wanted to have a good look at some of the great statues they had in their grounds.

Thank goodness this one was so big otherwise it would have founds its way into one of our suitcases

I must say that I was very glad none of these were for sale, or were any smaller otherwise Lesley would have had them on the way back to Australia in no time!

We moved on and were quite surprised when we hit Piazza Bra to find it barely populated, no tourists, what was going on?

A very quiet Piazza Bra

Missing in action...the tourists!!

We seemed to have got up early enough to have beaten most of the tourists, so we pushed onto Juliet's balcony to see if we could get a clear photo there, guess what.....

A pretty clear photo of Juliet

We even managed to get an almost clear photo of Juliet! We had done well, so it was time to head back to the apartment, pick up our luggage and head to the train station and Venice.

A quiet Verona train station

We had booked our tickets on yet another regional train (you guessed it, 2nd class) to Venice. We got to the train station about 30 minutes before departure, things were looking good. Then about 10 minutes before the train arrived so did the other passengers, heaps of them. When the train arrived we just managed to get a seat for Lesley, I put all of our bags in the area that was made specifically for that purpose. Looking around I could see that all of the seats had gone, so had most of the standing room, so I made myself comfortable ... sitting on top of our baggage!

When the ticket inspector came, she checked my ticket, gave me a smile and went about her business.... I had found a good seat after all.

Very soon we were in Venice and about to start the next leg of our adventure.

Straight outside the rail station, the hustle and bustle of Venice's canals!

 

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