Venice, Italy

Buongiorno, ETD Readers!

Let me take you on a Gondola ride…

We arrived in Venice on a sunny day and walked through the cobbled streets to our hostel. Our first impressions of the hostel weren’t great. We were greeted by a typical Englishman who had a hairstyle like he’d walked out of a Japanese Anime movie, and put our bags in a small luggage room. We glanced at the rooms which were bare and only had 3-4 single beds in them. No bunks, no tables, no lockers or anything. The hostel provided dinner as part of the price, so that is why we chose it. But other than that, it didn’t offer much else, except for a decent location. We borrowed their hostel map of Venice which looked like it had had better days, and headed out to explore the main streets, canals and the main square.

Verona, Italy

Ciao e Bentornati!

“..Two households, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene…”

Verona.  A “public place”, the location for William Shakespeare’s tale of love and sadness, and the next destination for WinGaz to visit.  This seemed like a great place to delve deeper into this literary classic and see if the town lives up to it’s reputation.

As Verona was going to be a short overnighter for us, we were hoping to spend a few hours walking the city’s streets and seeing for ourselves the place where Juliet spoke those timeless words:

“Romeo.  Romeo.  Where for art thou Romeo?”

Happy Easter

Hello ETD Readers! 


We haven't forgotten about you all....
Just a quick post to say Happy Easter! Hope the Easter Bunny was kind to you all :)
Stay safe, enjoy the long weekend. 


Gaffa and I are back in the UK, enjoying some R&R before we head off to Cyprus for a week of diving. But we'll continue on with out European Adventure posts before we venture underwater! 


Stay tuned, 


Win =) 


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