After a few weeks at home, seeing friends and family and celebrating my birthday it was time to start the next chapter! Being half Italian myself, I was very excited to go and live in Verona for 6 months although very nervous I knew it would be easier than it was being in Spain in regards to the language etc.
I arrived in Verona on the 17th February with my mum who had to fly out with me as I had so much stuff to take with me, safe to say I don’t know the meaning of packing light. We arrived in Verona quite early on the Monday morning which wasn’t really ideal with all the luggage we weren’t able to check into the airbnb until later in the afternoon and there were no luggage lockers nearby. My mum stayed for 5 days, this was nice for us to see the city together and also have a relaxing week.
I found it quite difficult to find a flat in Verona, one of my friends from uni messaged me and suggested we find one together which was a big relief! This made it slightly easier, however it seems in Italy single beds are very common and also shared rooms… not ideal. After a lot of searching we finally found someone who had a 3-bed apartment, all double beds so after a few phone calls to the landlord as we were still in England, we decided to chose this one. I found that flats in Italy are a lot cheaper than Spain, I was paying €500 in Spain for quite a standard flat, not the biggest room or balcony and a small kitchen whereas in Italy I pay €390 for a much bigger apartment. One thing I have noticed is that general cost of living in Italy is a lot more expensive especially food etc.
From Valencia to Verona... 