Verona - City of Love

What Shakespear play is based in Verona? Anyone? Romeo & Juliet! We found out that the story is actualy based on true facts. We also found the balcony where they never met but is a great tourist attraction.
But before we get to that....we need to talk about Mario & Anne - the people we are renting an apartment from. They are super! Our first day here they invited us to come with them to a classical music concert. Their friend had started a concert series with students from the university and we happily went along. It was an hour long with 4 groups. The best was a young women who play my favorite Chopin piece...it was incredible! We then went to dinner with them and then to an English quiz night. The we all had lots of fun and ended up winning 3 bottles of wine...Mike is very happy. The next day they took us to their favorite winery (again Mike is very happy) where Mike tried 5 different wines and I enjoyed the cheese and jelly. It is so nice to be shown around a town by locals.
Yesterday we did a self guided tour of Verona where we met Juliet, climbed the staircase of Reason and contemplated Dante's expression. Today...Mike and I went to visit the Campagnolo bicycle factory. It was really neat to see how they test the quailty of the parts, make bike chains and carbon fibre wheels. Discovery channel filmed an episode of "How it's Made" there. They don't usually give tours but the salesman said that Mike "asked so nicely that they couldn't refuse". Lastly, tonight we went to a thermal pool that was outside. The water was so warm and they had coloured lights everywhere...fun!

Jane