1 April - Vicenza (The Hunt Continues....)

Having driven across to the other side of Italy from where we will be staying for the next two months it felt important to make the most of the area before we drove back west.  Venice, Padua and Vicenza are all an easy train ride away from Treviso so we decided upon Vicenza for a day trip.  An hour on the train and we were in the city of the architect Palladio with all the classical buildings that this entails.  Unfortunately the two places we wanted to visit were shut that day (the museum and an old Palladio theatre) but just wandering through the streets and lunching on great food at good prices, with a trip to another church (more interesting than it might sound - great paintings and a superb mosaic high altar) was a good way to pass the day before we headed back to Treviso.  We did of course pop into a couple of wine merchants but again to no avail....

Tomorrow we head to Lucca!