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In Fair Verona
Another short visit made me add another city to my “want to visit again” list
As much as I enjoy leading my student travel groups, there are some downsides. One such downside is that we often only spend as much time in a city as we would like. There are itineraries to follow and places to go. And sometimes, our visits get cut short by circumstances out of our hands.
In those situations, I always tell myself I will visit that site again at some point. Whether with another group trip or a future trip with my wife, there are places I hope to see more than once.
One such situation occurred when we visited Verona on the same day that we visited Innsbruck. The day started well, with us beating traffic and having a great time for our morning/early afternoon visit to Innsbruck. From there, it would be a couple of hours to Verona before ending our day in Padua for our day in Venice the next morning. We should have about four or five hours in the city to explore.
Then we hit traffic. The road between Innsbruck and Verona winds through the Tyrol region and is beautiful. As we got further along, traffic began to back up. What should have been about a three-hour drive stretched to five. At one point, when we crossed the border into Italy, we had to stop for our driver to take a break; he was apologetic…
