My friend and sort-of-cousin is making her way around Europe and visited me for a week. We became friends one summer before we realized we share a cousin. I hadn’t seen her in three or four years be we got along very well while she was here!
Her first day here we went to Venice. Ellen’s photo
Later in the week I took her to Verona, which is only about two hours away by train. I had been to Verona twice, but each time was on a tour so that I’d only spent a couple hours in the city alone. This day we were there for six and a half hours and really got to sight-see!
The Verona Arena, a Roman amphitheater. In the summer the arena holds operas! We saw La Boheme a couple years ago and are planning on going back in August, though we haven’t decided yet which performance to see.
The first stop was of course “Juliet’s balcony,” which is a balcony attached to a wall. It definitely never belonged to the Capulet’s, and as far as I know the balcony wasn’t even attached until the 1930’s. The first time I went to Verona, in February 2007, we saw the “real” Capulet and Montague castles–side-by-side on separate hills, they were over an hour’s car ride away from the city where the balcony is located. Something about that isn’t right.
In Juliet’s courtyard under her balcony there is a statue of her; you’re supposed to stroke her right breast for good luck.
Castelvechhio Bridge
Ellen hangin’ out in Castelvecchio
Me on a small drawbridge that was right next to a large drawbridge
We had to ask some French tourists to take this photo so we could send it to our parents! Ellen’s photo
More on the outfit in the above photos?
Note: this photo was on a separate day!
Dress from H&M, cardigan from J. Crew, t-strap flats from Anthropologie
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I love your yellow sundress!!