I've heard good news and bad about Venice, too. Mostly good. The art is phenomenal, of course. It's really a pretty impressive place to have honeymooned, when you think about it.
just outside the hotel itself, which as said, wasn't very glam - but it was clean... enough.
It's amazing how that clean enough standard changes in need, isn't it? I've stayed at some serious dumps during big rain storms and been damn glad to have a roof! Though I have to admit that in a couple I slept in my sleeping bag on top of the bed. :)
I'd have probably needed to make the day trip to the romantic center of Bologna. Where Ducati is headquartered...
I am really glad we did the trip. Not only that, when we announced our marriage on Facebook, my best friend from highschool and someone I hadn't seen since I was 16 happened to be in Verona with his wife for the opera - it is a stop on the way to Venice and we managed to have both breakfast and lunch with them (which is why we got to Venice later than we expected) which was brilliant. It was a pretty incredible surprise and chance meeting.
Hotels are generally meaningless to me (if I am paying ;D ) as I don't tend to be in them much. Probably different travelling with a child now though. I have stayed at some pretty bad places over the years too , but not so bad that it is unstayable. In general, places have been clean and I don't care for all the fanciness. I think a lot of people are spoiled by average conditions these days and forget, life can be much worse than even the worst hotel.
Romance is a very personal thing :D
If you make it to Bologna, it isn't far to Maranello and then a little north and you can take a little a ride at Monza ;)
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