Verona is one of my absolute favourite cities in Italy, and I've spent enough time both visiting and lurking on Immobilare.it to have formed some opinions about the neighbourhoods around the city. When it's your first time visiting, it can be tricky to decide where to stay in Verona; you...

If you're planning your trip to the heartland of Amarone, you might be wondering how much it's going to cost you. To answer that, I'll use the most commonly used phrase in my software engineering day job: "it depends". Your Valpolicella budget is naturally going to vary, depending on how...

Some people will tell you that the only way to get out into the Veneto countryside and visit a Valpolicella winery is with a rental car. Well, I've been to lazy to get a driver's license since moving to London 15 years ago, and I've still been found roaming the...

Venice is indisputably one of the most beautiful and unique places on Earth. It's a city built and living entirely on water. It's got a rich history, once home to one of the most powerful naval and commercial republics in Europe, before being conquered by Napoleon. And it's been perennially...

Venice is one of the world's most famous and most visited cities, and while it is beautiful, it can be overwhelming with crowds and tour groups. A train to Venice from Verona is a little over an hour, so if you're staying in the calmer Verona, you can still get...

Verona is easily one of my favourite cities in Italy. It's sometimes overlooked by its more famous neighbour of Venice, but it still pulls in about 3 million visitors every year. If you only have one day in Verona, the goal is to navigate the crowds, skip the tourist traps,...