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Welcome back today.
I'll be exploring Verona.
Now I'll also be exploring whether or not Romeo and Juliet actually existed.
I'll be doing this with my good friend, Nam of Laugh, travel, and eat.
So come along,
I've been a vagabond drifter.
I'm just taking one step at a time.
A field of stars.
and the blisters, I just got to give up and decide.
I don't know.
Then the signs I know I'm going...
I just arrived into Verona.
First things first because Nam and I are going to split up at the end of the day.
We need to ditch our bags.
So we're looking for left luggage, not all station have, luggage, but this one does.
Okay.
So this is a little pricey.
I'm going to try some.
A little further away.
Maybe
we do.
Yeah.
Okay.
Right outside the train station, you have to ask why..
Nam said it's probably because of a musical festival.
They have an opera each year so that's probably for the opera.
SI went online to check where.
you can put left luggage and found a spot, kind of like Bag BNB.
I'll put 'the link down below.
I'm assuming it's a service where shops can open up their premises for storing their luggage.
And it's a good deal.
So,
so we just left our bags in there.
I only made one reservation, uh, but he also took Nam's bags too.
I was trying to pay for my phone glitch completely . And he was just like, oh, Basically, we
just stored our stuff for under $6.
That was such a life saver.
So we definitely are in Verona.
Check that place out.
Oh my God.
Floors and floors.
There's desserts.
That's the fanciest McDonald's I've seen.
Welcome to Verona..
Nam, this is so beautiful.
Oh my God.
You can just see a corner of it where right there.
Yeah.
It's the best preserved roman amphitheater around the world.
It's just gorgeous.
They still hold like concerts and operas and musicals inside.
And it's really, really, ...it looks like ruins, no inside.
It's like steps that everything is kind of nice.
Sometimes it's I put some types it's open and sometimes it's not, but it will cost you
a pretty penny to go in.
Oh, it will.
Yeah.
This is kind of like the start of Verona Old Town.
So when were walking into it, it's such a big, we're lucky today because Nam actually
lived here for about a month, right?
Automatic.
And you're here with what, the Copy Guilieta.
So they are the secretary of Juliet and they reply to letters that people send to Juliet.
People actually send letters to Juliet?
So there's a movie, Letters to Juliet.
If you watched it, you know.
What is this?
And it's real.
Just not as romantic.
It is real.
It is.
Yeah.
So.
Juliet really did exist?
Apparently they think of version of Romeo and Juliet existed.
Wow.
You've got a drinking water fountain right here.
Okay.
Or you could stick your water bottle, the cuteness of the streets following the bread
lady.
Oh my God.
Quintessential shot back in Italy in the medieval ages.
The money you don't travel, you build towers..
So that's like a tower in every town and city in Italy.
Oh there's someone up there.
You can?
Yeah, think it was like 60 euros to go up all the way up, but it is a pretty decent
view.
Wow.
Are these led?
Oh no.
There's People are sticking anything on here just to mark their visit.
This is the letter box by people who put the letters in, if they want to send letters to
Juliet.
So they come up with like this.
Oh really?
Yes.
That's a lot.
Have the keys and you can put a letter in front top.
Oh, way.
Yeah.
People know about this?
Oh yeah, there are letters in there.
No, I don't.
I think most people can be here to feel a balcony and statue down that people actually
remember to put letters in there..
That's why everyone is writing on the wall.
Instead of doing this.
So I don't think those are letters.
Those are just like, I was here.
Oh, you can go up there.
You have to pay for the museum because they made the Juliet balcony.
Oh,there's a sarcophagus?
Oh my gosh.
They do a reenactment of Romeo and Juliet sometimes.
Do they really?
Have you been here when they've done that?, Yeah, but it's so crowded that people are
stacked against each other?
And they have a customer up there,
The original statue of Juliet is also inside.
This is a reconstruction because people pull on the arm so much that the left-hand phone
people will call in from the right breast and Juliet, or sure about that because she
wasn't very lucky.
Love no luck from Juliet in a suicide pack.
A love story.
No, not the moral of the story is now.
Okay.
So you've got all this gum right here.
That's been stuck to this ball.
Secret letters in here.
Screen notes right next to it.
You've got like this wall of love locks.
A lot of people are inspired by star, cross love.
These are all hopefuls.
I'm looking for like someone writing on toilet paper, that would be.
You this way, it's not a sanitary napkin, but Juliet's house was constructed in the
1200s and it has been taken over by the municipal.
It's gone through three restorations.
There's also a Tomb of Juliet here, apparently.
So Juliet did exist.
It seems, but whether that story is real and what Romeo is in what we don't know yet.
Inside Juliet's house, you see like just a lot of artwork here.
It's been inspired by the Romeo and Juliet story for on the actual
We're on the actual Balcony of Juliet and I have a whole line waiting for me.
So I had to hurry up.
That was kind of a thrill actually.
I didn't come to a little bit of our rush.
This is what I would look like in Juliet stress.
This is a Renaissance style bed.
I don't know if it's the actual bed of Juliet.
So there is a dear junior club, as nom was saying, and its very purpose is to help sustain
that romantic inspiration that Romeo and Juliet had every year.
They get like throngs and throngs of letters where Juliet and what the volunteers do is
they respond to them.
I guess I'm going to see if she can respond to me.
No, I'm actually did a blog on his, I'll leave her linked up and you can check that out.
It's very fascinating.
The idea that there is a house here, there is Romeo's House as well.
The Statue of Dante who apparently lived here
for a brief moment
with all that.
I imagine it all takes money to upkeep or maintain
This is the Piazza delle Erbe.
So this is marketplace, which is still a marketplace.
Oh, this is the porcini.
Oh my gosh.
So good!.
These are all mushrooms.
I don't remember if this is correct.
(Arco della Costa) They say when a virgin walks underneath this whale bone it will fall.
Don't think it's true.
Is it Veronian kind of myth?.
Oh, I don't even know why they dangled a thing on this . It's really weird..
We don't know if Julia and Romeo actually existed.
Although they're like things that show you that they did.
There's also a crypt (Juliet's Crypt).
You kind of want to see it, but once you've seen it you're kinda like... what?
It's noteven a proper crypt, you get the coffin, but it's like, open and people have been taking
chunks of it away.
So there's really not much left.
It's kind of horrific.
I don't know why they let people do that.
It's really strange.
The disturbing.
Okay, well, let's go eat right now.
He's making it by hand.
That's going to be a good sign.
This looks like marshmallow balls.
Gnocchi's looks so fluffy.
Oh, look at that.
So I think it's just going to come like may sauteed.
I have an assorted, array, I guess of different types of tortellonis and they are all vegetarian
ish.
So if you ask for like the assorted plate, he just kind of like put like a little bit
of each thing onto your plate.
Nam has like a normal, the original, I guess I'm really excited about that.
Yes.
There is actual spinach in here too.
I don't know.
Remember what it is.
I don't know.
There's definitely some herb in it.Colored the pasta, but he also had like little bits
of radish and cheese.
I like that.
It's got a little bit of Tang to it.
I'm going for the pesto ricotta...
Mmmm.
For some reason it tastes sort of seafoody..
I think the pesto.
Pesto with a lot of cheese.
I'm eating slow I've got to catch up.
There are eight in total.
I have only down like four.
Ooh, this is a interesting looking line.
This might be the funghi.
That's the mushroom, yeah.
This might be a from here.
Okay.
Wow.
Strong flavor.
The mushrooms are really wrong, like in terms of scent flavor.
In terms of scent..., the moment that tortellini was coming to close to my mouth, I could already
feel it and inhale and taste it the mushroom.
So you just have a lot of robust flavors in here they're unique and different from what
you had normally tastes like in your pasta or your tortellonis.,
this place has a lot of character.
Smell the smells.
Everything's fresh homemade.
We are outside the Historical House of Romeo.
He is currently nowhere to be seen because.
It's owned by someone else.
So it's a private residence.
You're not able to go inside and check it out, but check out all the vet.
So I guess this is just like little echoes of the Romeo and Juliet and all the people
leaving behind personal marks and graffiti.
This is the Castelvecchio.
Oh, this is beautiful.
This is a medieval museum.
It was owned by the Scala family.
One who owns all the towers, or many of them is one of the most more impressive bridges
I've seen so far in Italy.
What was the push to call?
So I can imagine courses trumping up here.
they did the see when the Romeo pretty cool.
Yeah.
Check it out on Netflix..
Here you can see the castle.
And the river, the winding river long way down from my selfie stick to fall.
We are on our way to Ponte Pietro and Castelvecchio, but.....
Here's a great focacchia place..
We bought one, we split, uh, you could see like little pools of oil in there and the
Rosemary.
Oooh yum!
One country in particular, it away as a bad idea either.
Now there's no way you want to save this.
It's perfect.
Like hot when you bite into it, it's kind of got a crunchy, but doughy, like some queries,
like pathing where loving Verona right now, eating Verona.
Cause out guys.
Last bite.
That's the Duomo over there, and that is the church up there.
And the 18 moisture surround the ancient wall.
So we went past the old on the way in and popping over on this side is harder to find
them, but they're long that you can go hiking when you kind of need to find it.
And you can go down to , which is the other train station from, oh, you'll find.
The historical center of Verona inside the wall and the regular and normal Verona city
center outside of it.
Okay.
So initially I thought Shakespeare's tale of Romeo and Juliet was pure fiction, but
now I really don't know.
There's more, there's definitely more
What is he called?
The Chocolatino...
It's basically white chocolate with pistachio.
So we went to Nams secret, favorite gelato store, Balini Gelato..
I've not seen this flavor, right?
It's like, there are a proper chunks and I liked like this chunks in, it's not just like
the entire flavor.
Yeah.
This is, what's really unique about it.
There are chunks of pistachio in here chomping into like pistachio butter, honey.
Thinkful coming to Verona for the ice cream and.
Oh, my God, this was such a wonderful experience.
I loved this city, right?
I knew you need to check out my friend Nam's account.
I'll leave her links down below.
You can check it out until they in trouble say smart and fun.
I will see you here in Verona, may the grrrl with you.
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