Crossing the bridge

Late afternoon, crossing Ponte Pietra towards the city centre.

Cocktail on the river

Caffé al Ponte, near Ponte Pietra is one of the very few cafés/restaurant with a terrace straight on the Adige river. It's small and cosy, with a ...refreshing view!

Through the hole

Peeping through one of the holes in the thick roman marble of the ancient Ponte Pietra, 100 BC. Note the neat track dug by the boats' mooring lines, throughout the centuries.

Future overlooks the history

Belvedere at Castel San Pietro.

A pink Vespa with a view

I realize I have often posted about means of transport and today I couldn't miss this one, the loveliest pink Vespa!

"On 23 April 1946, at 12 o'clock in the central office for inventions, models and makes of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in Florence, Piaggio e C. S.p.A. took out a patent for a "motorcycle of a rational complexity of organs and elements combined with a frame with mudguards and a casing covering the whole mechanical part"

"The first prototype was given the initials MP5 and baptized "Paperino," the Italian name for Donald Duck, a nick-name given to it by the workers because of the strange shape it had"

Wikipedia

It's so romantic... how can any other scooters compare with Vespa?

B/W romantic promenade

First of all I want to say thankyou to all of you, blogger friends, for your  very very kind comments, they really do make me happy...! I am trying to improve but I must say that both my new computer and my new camera do help a lot!

Now, the photo. I took it the other day, on my walk in the "Foggy day", just a few hundred meters down the Lungadige. From this angle you can see the Ponte Pietra in the mist and the side entrance of Santa Anastasia church. 

Believe me: this is a perfectly romantic walk for lovers!

Foggy day

It's still icy cold here and today it was also pretty foggy. There is still some snow left on the roofs and on the river shores. I took a long walk today and enjoyed this magical atmosphere near the Ponte Pietra. This is the oldest bridge in Verona, built in 100 BC!