Even though travel restrictions are easing I am not yet minded to risk it so I still have no new stories to post so I continue to go through my picture archives and see where I was on this day at any time in the last few travelling years.
On 25th October 2012 I was travelling to Northern Italy to visit Venice, Verona and Padova. Instead of reading a travel guide in preparation I read a book about William Shakespeare and the Italian connection.
I’ll see you later in the Colosseum…
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Tagged Culture, Francesco do Mosto, Life, Padova, Shakespeare, Stratford upon Avon, Travel, Venice, Verona
The holiday club all wanted to visit Venice of course so the plans began with an expectation that we would be spending four days in the famous waterlogged city but during the search for suitable accommodation it soon became clear that the price of hotels was some way beyond our normal hotel room budget so I started to look for alternatives and very soon found something suitable in nearby Padova – the Hotel Grand Italia right next to the train station.
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Tagged Francesco do Mosto, Life, Padova, Shakespeare, Venice, Verona
“Ever a shadow, he disappears, all but utterly, from 1585 to 1592….There is not a more tempting void in literary history, nor more eager hands to fill it” Bill Bryson on Shakespeare.
It is an interesting fact that thirteen of the thirty-seven plays of William Shakespeare were set either completely or partly in Italy and if we rule out the ten English history plays (which naturally have to be set in England) then half of the remainder of the major works are set in the Italian states and no one knows for sure just why.
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Tagged Francesco do Mosto, Life, Padova, Shakespeare, Travel, Venice, Verona
