To the castle and back – plus ice cream

I woke up at my usual time after 8 1/2 hours of sleep feeling – still sleepy. It will be rather interesting to see my thyroid hormone levels next week, I might be a tad low on hormones but then I might not and it‘s something different. We‘ll see, I guess.

We set out pretty early again because again there were thunderstorms predicted. We didn‘t really have any but we couldn‘t know beforehand. My feet were still very painful from all the walking the days before so that was fun. Still, we ventured into the old part of Verona again and chose a way that led us along the river most of the way. We‘re starting to be familiar with some streets and bridges already.

We ate some yummy focacchia near the very old bridge and then took the funicular up the hill. It‘s really not that far but my feet were grateful. We walked around and had a splendid view of the whole city. The sky was not clear enough to see the mountains, though.

We sat down on a bench for a while and talked and then went back down and all the way back to the restaurant we had eaten at the first day. I had very yummy pasta with veggies and fontina cheese. We walked back to the apartment, rested for a bit, later went out for ice cream near the piazza Bra that was also delicious, went to the supermarket again and back to the apartment where we ate some bread, cheese, salami and cucumber. And crackers. And had some beer.

No pictures today, my phone took too long to send them to the cloud and I am in a bit of a hurry.

I had bought a train ticket that is only valid for one specific train and that would have meant getting home after 11 pm. But for some reason it has been saying for weeks now that it can also be used on other trains so yesterday afternoon while sitting on the steps of the Palazzo Barbieri I booked us two seats on an earlier train and so we will leave the apartment at 10, then walk to the train station and store our bags, walk back to a restaurant near the apartment and sit around with food and drink until it‘s time to leave for home at 5. We‘re supposed to be back home at about 9.15 which is still late but at least halfway civilized.