Verona and Tyrolean Hats

 

This is what we know of as a Tyrolean hat. (We borrowed the image off Amazon where you can buy one of your own for a price.) We borrowed the image because we didn't like to photograph the ones we saw on the heads of a group of uniformed  'gentlemen' in the town centre of Verona last night.

Years ago a lawyer instructed by F wrote a verý humerous of-the-record advice about a ship salvage claim in Italy. It included a line about the officials being awarded large feathers for their hats...  It returns to mind every time she looks upon a uniformed Italian with a large feather in his hat. 

Best not make fun of them!

Verona, approached from the east is set in flat to very low rolling land with villages, farmland and light industry. The thing we noticed most about the road from Slovenia to Verona was the endless convoy of lorries going the other way. Nose to tail for miles and miles and miles and...

Do you know the Romeo and Juliette story? We didn't go to Verona for that, and the Two Gentlemen of another Shakespeare play were visiting Milan for the duration of that story so we weren't pursuing that either. In fact we wonder whether Shakespeare ever visited Verona himself.  We went to see the coliseum.

Did you know that Verona has the fourth largest coliseum in Italy, that it is well preserved and still in use for opera performances?

Good luck with the blurb

This is NOT the Arena but a covered walkway round the Citadelle

And some photos of the Citadelle after dark. (Some wine may have been consumed and some people watching udertaken.) 

Our only other comment about Verona is that the city council are either energy consumption conscious, saving money, or on an anti light-pollution drive as the street lights were off in the surrounding town and the place had rather a dim aspect to it after dark. Instead some buildings have big spotlights on them.

A bit dim

We also went via Verona so that we could travel through the Alps on a route we have never tried before - via Trento, Bolzano, the Dolomite country, and into Austria. Stay tuned for tomorrow's road trip episode....🙄🛣

And now for the weird 

We get what they are trying to say, but there had to be a better way.

Finally in your daily dose of Travelwriter Tigger:

See the trellis?

This is me being annoyed when I discovered an exciting garden beyond our trellised patio and I could get into it by squeezing past the locked gate but the humans could not, so I was denied exploration rights - AGAIN. How am I supposed to report the full picture and provide objectivity if I can't have unfettered access? It's like travel in the old USSR or modern North Korea.