Mille Miglia

May 16 2013

Click here to see our welcome to Verona Ken Smith this is especially for you !

Yes we are in Italy. Fast cars, cigarette smoking, arm waving, pasta eating and yes gelato !! What is it about my instant Italian speaking children. Well, last time we were in Verona, Italian speaking Al became fluent overnight BUT his sister beats him. She has the app that she just types in and it yells Italian. Only problem is it didn’t understand ‘where is the bus?’ .. ‘where is the train?’ .. yes but we were at the train station. Maybe a sigh of relief cause I can just see the oh so stylish Italians being pleased to have an iphone shoved in their face, that screams at them in US accented Italian. A slightly vague moment in rain soaked Italy – are we in Verona or the Italian lakes? The night was clear but the flooding drains and puddles (make that lakes) told us they had a lot of rain. We wandered in the direction of the Arena di Verona, the wonderful AD 30 Roman amphitheatre in Piazza Bra. Well tonight was fantastic – last year Al and I were in Sienna for the Palio. This time oh so much more stylish – boys and their toys – Ken would have been in his element.

The Mille Miglia took place in Italy 24 times between 1927 and 1957. The open endurance race saw the best of Italian sports cars hit the road for the 1000 mile race. It is now re-enacted each May and arrived into Verona last night as we did. The only cars that can enter are those made between 1927 and 1957 .. gorgeous cars with the Arena as a backdrop. We ate our way through fantastic pasta and had a front seat as the Ferraris, Alphas and Fiats sped past.