My Past Few Weekends!

 Well hello everyone!! Life in Italy has been busy busy busy, but last week was midterms and now I am on break!! I had planned on going to London, Madrid, and Barcelona, but then decided last minute that what I really want to do is stay in Florence/Italy because there is so much I want to do and see here and so that is what I am doing! First: a quick update on my past few weeks. Three weekends ago I went to the Amalfi Coast (Sorrento, Capri, and Positano) with a couple friends. It was stunning!! In the same sort of way that the Cinque Terre were, but different. I LOVED it.

And then last weekend I was in Perugia for the chocolate festival, Verona, and Venice. Perugia seemed like a really cool city, I didn’t get to see much of it because I was only there for a few hours and I was pretty focused on all the chocolate. It was a rainy, yucky, day but chocolate can make just about anything better and I hardly even noticed ☺. Chocolate ravioli...yum....

I didn’t really know what to expect of Verona, but I ended up really really liking it! It is actually one of my top favorite places I have visited so far. It is just adorable. We, of course, saw Romeo and Juliet’s houses (they didn’t actually ever exist, but their families did). Apparently it gives you good luck in your love life if you rub Juliet's boob in a circle three times with your left hand... so now that I've officially felt up a bronze statue, come and find me prince charming!!

And I ate some pretty great food. Verona is known for their polenta, as well as their horse meat stew…so that is exactly what I had. It doesn’t look all that appetizing in the pictures, but both were fantastic.

Then we went to a winery to learn about wine and wine making :) Good thing my taste buds have matured just in time to be studying abroad here and I have acquired a taste for wine!

Venice was a kind of horrid day. Not that I didn’t have a great time, because I did, but the actual day itself was just ugly and wet and FREEZING because I stupidly (but not surprisingly) forgot to pack a coat… so I was prancing around (literally, to keep warm, of course) in boots, tights, jeans, a long sleeve shirt, and a little sleeveless dress (It sounds weird, but I rocked it. I didn’t have much choice. I had to layer on everything I brought, haha).

 Venice, of course, was so super cool. Consisting of over 100 tiny islands, all the canals and little gondolas were so beautiful. I liked it a lot! And took lots of vitamin C when I got home that night to prevent catching pneumonia.

And that has been my past few weekends! I have to go grocery shopping to make dinner, but I will write about this weekend/break later!!