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You are right, it is not listed at Croatian Trains or D-Bahn website anymore... Cannot believe...

But there's much faster connection - Zagreb via Villach to Venezia Mestre and then to Verona, only 10 hours on train.

tomsakic wrote:Really??? It was here last Summer.

Yes, but it stopped a few months ago
Eva

There goes "unite unite Europe" idea to the history...

tom....a trip to venice wouldn't be complete now without me standing around in santa lucia station at 7 in the morning surrounded by all the poor homeless people and alcoholics waking up on their benches whilst i'm waiting for you to arrive on the overnight train from zagreb...which of course is always late ......and you did see the arena and dante's statue and the cathedral wHere i was muchly impressed by you translating all the latin inscriptions into english for me...it must have been all the excitement of touching giulietta's breast and then going up onto her balcony that has erased everything else about verona from your memory.... ta ken

I am recollecting almost everything of it but not the Arena............ It has to be the excitement;)

tom...it was around christmas time when we were in verona we didn't go into the arena itself but verona's famous christmas star was there for all to see...now surely you couldn't forget something as beautiful as that......ta ken

Oh yes, I remember now. Apparently the air photo is much more striking - I did not notice it... as it seems smaller than Roman Arena in Pula in Croatia (the ideal venue for Leonard, but alas...)

phew!! tom....i'm glad that you have finally been able to recall our trip to verona....i was beginning to think i had dreamt it all.....do you remember buying one of those a cotton tote bags at giulietta's house for your books and sitting in a cafe in the cathedral square on one of the coldest days of the year eating ICE CREAM with a bunch of shivering cohenites or did i dream that part ?....ta ken

Hi Ken and Tom.

I remember Tom was very tired when last time he arrived in Verona from Travelling and he also got very cold feet in the concert Pizzeria , so maybe some details of the trip were just removed by Tom and he had a short bed , so his cold feet could not warm up that night , so a sort of nightmare maybe keept in his mind
Tom this time you get a bigger bed

Ken I can testimony that it was not just a dream

We hope to see you both in Verona , the famous Venice Duo Ken & Tom

Andrea

Tom. have a look for flights. when we came to Zagreb we flew Verona-Frankfurt-Zagreb
and with good timing it is not too expensive.....

andrea.....

....with the overnight budapest-zagreb-venice train having been axed it looks like i have now lost my job as mr sakic's personal meeter and greeter in venice...ah well !.. it was a good job while it lasted.....maybe you could look for candidates for the new position as his personal meeter and greeter in verona........let's hope leonard organises it so we can all meet and greet each other again in september.....ta ken

The Verona Action Committee has already a meeting.

Wijbe

I love it. Great photo, you guys .

wybe....being a connoisseur on the italian spritz i can see from the colour that those glasses contain aperol and not campari...if ever i was invited to join the verona action committee i'm afraid i would have to insist on banning aperol from the proceedings.... for me there is no other choice for the spritz but campari...campari for me has always been a symbol of italian passion...a passion that expresses itself in terms of seduction sensuality and transgression....and it also has twice the alcoholic strength as aperol.....it's either that or i join maarten in the coca cola bar.....ta ken

Mine's a crisp prosecco please

They make prosecco flavoured crisps these days?