Euro Adventures Pt 12 - Driving The Day Away, To Venice We Go

Sometimes I cannot believe I am on this tour, living this lifestyle, I never thought I would be able to handle it... My body may be telling me that I can't. But I will still power through! This is one of those days - one of those days where I need to power through, buck up, not be a princess and suck up the massive pain in my tailbone and endure a long day in a bus... But at least at the end we will be in one of my favourite places in the world, Venice!

Already on our 11th day... 11 days away from our jobs, from our families, from our boyfriends, it's been hard, but we have tried to make every day as fun as we can - even the drive days, and this one was a long one - we did, however, have one notable stop...

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.

Today we were able to stop in Verona, where the famous play Romeo and Juliet was based. It was nothing like I had ever expected, beautiful architecture, so many shops - so many expensive shops! Such good gelato. And only two hours break from the day long bus ride.

We walked through the fair city of Verona to Juliet's home and we were able to see the famous balcony of Juliet, where she would have called down to her beloved Romeo. There was also a statue of Juliet, this statue has one very very shiny boob - as rubbing it is said to bring good luck in love to the rubber. People come from all over the world to leave letters or notes for Juliet or just to leave their mark in this place. It was very cool. We had some gelato and then made our way back to the coach to head to our hostel on Venice.

We were actually staying on a camping ground in two person bungalows with their own ensuites... We were all so stinking hot from our couple of hours walking around Verona, so we changed into our swimmers and headed for the pool before dinner. Lucky for us it was make your own sundae night in the Topdeck food tent which was hilarious - made me feel like a kid again. Alysha was able to catch up with her cousins who are also on a Topdeck tour and happened to be staying at the same place - then I spent the rest of my night doing laundry and having a cold shower - not by choice (our hot water did not work - crap).

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