Aug 15, 2008

Our New Town--Vicenza Italy

Reamer and I rented bicycles today and took a tour of our new town. It is georgous! Mountains surround the pretty little town and give it such a picturesque look. The streets are small and many of them are cobblestone with beautiful buildings. There are apartments above high end shops, gelateria's, cafe's and restraunts. The residents hang beautiful flowers from their balcony's and the cafe's put out chairs practically in the streets with umbrella covered tables. Life seems a little slower here and it makes you feel so realxed.



There are several parks throughout Vicenza that are beautiful, manicured and adorned with statues and ponds. We think that Champ will love it in these parks. We biked through the town and up the small little mountain that tops Vicenza. As you walk up this steep hill to get to the lovely view over the small city you can walk under a beautiful church-like walking path that takes you to the top.
Once you get there, you are greeted by the an amazingly beautiful church and clock tower. The church seems to always have a service and everytime we have been there the church bells sing us a beautiful song.You almost get the sense when you are there that the church is watching over it's town. As you go to the lookout, you see such a wonderful sight. Vicenza and all of it's glory is down below. The view is absolutely magnificent.
There is a small cafe that serves gelato's (ice cream) and cappucino's/wine/beer etc... We always reward ourselves with a gelato after a long hike/bikeride! Yummy!!!! We haven't yet tried the restraunt, but when we are dressed more appropriately, we will definately have to give it a try. (we probably need to wait until we have a car to avoid the hike)

We have met a bunch of LT's here and they all live in downtown Vicenza. We wen't over to one of their apartments last night and now I'm so excited to find ours!!! They are overlooking the town in all of it's splendor. Marble floors, huge rooms and enough room for plenty of guests!! I'm so excited to figure out where we will live. We will be talking to our Real Estate Agent next week and hopefully will get started on picking out our new home!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm jealous. Beautiful.

Anonymous said...

Soooo beautiful and charming!! Good luck finding somewhere to live..may you have better luck than us ;)

Anonymous said...

Meghan and Reamer! I am so glad to hear how much you love where you are at! It looks and sounds absolutely wonderful! I can't wait to read and see more!!!!! Lots of love, Heidi

Anonymous said...

This sounds wonderful!

trixie said...

Our family is considering a move to Vicenza. What can you tell us? From the little bit I'm learning online it seems like the Italians hate us and there's not much to do for kids.

I have three daughters (6,8 & 14) who are serious dancers and who love their lifes in the US. What can you tell me?

Scared yet excited. . . .

hernandez09 said...

heyy italy sounds beautiful!! Im also an army wife and my husband is currently in Vicenza..ill hopefully be with him very soon, but i am really scared! im young only 20yrs old nd pregnant, with our first child! I just hope everything goes well nd as planned! I miss him too much! i cant wait to be with him:) Your blog really helped me understand the beauty of italy!! Thanks

Anonymous said...

The church, whats the name of the church?!? I was in Italy in Jan '11 fell in love with the view from the church and clock tower! :)