Ollie I was in awe of that beautiful cathedral. The artworks inside were stunning. My first thought was how long it took each artist looking up or on scaffolding of some king laying on one’s back to paint such beautiful art. Loved everything about this video. Thank you both for sharing these travels. I will never see such beautiful in my lifetime so seeing these marvels are a real treat. Much love Ollie and Stephanie from Northern California, USA

As beautiful as all the splendid sights of Verona, was Ollie’s heartfelt appreciation of what he was experiencing. Thank you Steph and Ollie, for another wonderful and moving vlog.

Great job Oliver! The sights were breathtaking, thank you.

Now, that's the type of man I want to find, a man who will gallantly carry my purse for me. Loved the beautiful music with the church footage, and all the Italian scenery. Also loved Stephanie's starburst dress.

Great episode. And to see Fillippo. He’s a spectacular singer. Such a joyful time you had that you wonderfully shared with us!

Absolutely stunning…. Verona is a special -place. And that church, I was right there with you… (remembering as well, have been before) jaw dropping. And your comment about your friendship was heartfelt, as always thanks for sharing your travels. Arrivaderci from California ☀️🌴

I cried at the end....."A Good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you create them."..... live and enjoy together.........

Many years ago I stayed at the Excelsior Hotel in Rome and it was incredible, pre makeover and all the furniture was a genuine antique and all the porcelain was Ginori. I had breakfast on the balcony over looking Rome and the bathroom, in marble, was the size of my Paris appartment at the time ! I think I might be dissapointed to go back and see how they have made it over. Since I saw how they did the Raffles in Singapour I shudder, or the Ritz that was nicely old fashioned and it now all 'boutique hotel'. I am a snob. When they 'modernised' the Ritz Hotel in London in the 70, my best friend bought several dinner services and we used to eat off them and even used some as dog bowls !

Such amazing beauty in art and architecture. What a joy that we are able to see the finest works of master craftsmen from centuries past. By the way, Ollie, smart move to take the lift up the Torre dei Lamberti. That’s energy saved for further exploration. Finally, despite Ollie’s unfortunate shoe malfunction you’ve managed to share another wonderful soul-filled adventure.

Well, Ollie. I'm with you. Did not expect to fall in love with Verona and St. Anastacia. I do hope you both can return to the city and take us along with you. Need to learn more about its history, architecture, etc. Research awaits. Thanks so much to everyone who makes these lovely travels possible.

A beautiful city. The church was stunning.

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best i've seen

Absolutely incredible. Thank you for taking us along!

The love of a friend can see you through your entire life. I am lucky to have dear friends and it warms my heart when I see the two of you on your travels.

I immediately felt emotional seeing the inside of that exquisite church! I cannot put into words just how much I am enjoying your channel 😃🥰

Once again this series did not disappoint. St. Anastasia’s Church emoted similar feelings as Oliver’s - and that was through his video only! I have visited Verona but not that church. It’s another Italian city steeped in history, and another artful vlog - particularly enjoyed your ending.

Hey Ollie, I hope you and make it back to Verona soon. Camilla will love it.

Another amazing vlog! Thank you Ollie and Stephanie!

I love Ollie ❤ Sorry you had to go it alone but it was a great tour with several chuckles along the way. Phillipo! I honestly had an 'I know him!' moment and sat right up. A beautiful city and a beautiful friendship.

Went to Verona in May and the only church we went to was Santa Annastassia . Loved seeing your vlog of Verona as it brought back so many wonderful memories.

Verona delivered. The opera was exquisite. A city I shall add to my wish list.❤

Deeply moving depiction of the church, Oliver. You captured the magic perfectly. Thank you!

Well I never expected to fall in love with Verona as much as I have, thank you for the adventure.

Oh Ollie, when you walked into that church, I nearly dropped my cup of tea! (I was watching this vlog while having breakfast) I have never in my life, seen the inside of a church that looked so beautiful. I mean the roof, glowed!! It had a celestial feel to it. Most historical churches are pretty awesome, and you can clearly see the concentration of wealth and talent that has been poured into them. But this is like the GOAT!!

Another great travel vlog. So happy to be following along, after the hard day that I've had. You have brightened my day.

Thank you Stephanie and Ollie, such a beautiful city.

Ollie, this old heathen found himself tearing up during your tour of the church of St. Anastasia, and I felt such a sense of connection with you when you emerged, clearly moved by the unique beauty of what you'd seen. So it clearly came across in the video, and I can only imagine how much more intense it must be in person. We're both artists, so perhaps it touches something within those who paint. Goethe thought one might just as well die after viewing Naples, but I'll bet my mortal soul on Verona . . .

I think the 2nd bathroom in the suite is a guests bathroom. That way guests wouldn't have to enter the bedroom to use the bathroom. The church was just beyond stunning....!

Verona is beautiful. I give you kudos Ollie for going to the top of the tower. I know I would go to the top, but heights are not my thing and I would be terrified. The Anastasia Suite is lovely. Beautiful furnishings furnishings. The opera looked great. I love a good opera. 🙂🇨🇦

St.Anastacia Church is so magnificent ! I did not know ! What a splendeur !

Excellent job, Ollie. You are a very good storyteller, and when you express awe, we believe you because you are so genuine.

Beautiful city ,thanks for sharing!

Ollie you did very well on your own and yes the church was breathtaking and Verona is beautiful so much history ps still.lovely when Stephanie came ❤❤❤😊😊🎉

I woke up to the most beautiful video this morning in New Zealand. It’s raining and cold but my heart is warm now. Thank you so much. ❤❤❤❤

I am really enjoying you two showing us some very beautiful places, friendship is so important. Thank you Stephanie and Ollie 💕🇦🇺

I love your ramblings and I loved the old photographs at the end. Thanks for the tour friends.😊

Ollie, you did a stunning job on this visit. Bravo.😊

❤ to sharing your friendship with all of us! ❤

Stephanie having a “Janet Jackson” wardrobe malfunction!! Ollie is hilarious. What a wonderful travel companion. I so agree with his quote at the end. Friendships that last the distance are very special with all the shared history and memories making them irreplaceable. Stephanie you are lucky to have Ollie and other “old”friends in your life and I hope you will keep them close to your heart regardless of whatever is happening in your life. Great to see Filippo, Vivianne too. This must have been shot when all of you attended Filippo’s opera in Verona some time ago. Ollie I hope you return with Camilla so you can share the beauty of Italy and Verona in particular with her.

What a church! It trounces St Peter's IMHO! The 'greatest' is not always one's personal favourite, true of anything including churches! As you said, the balcony does not need to be authentic to have value. It is the idea it represents that matters. Thank you for another totally epic video!

I got emotional too while you were in the church - the music was perfect and quite emotional too. Thank you for sharing this beautiful video with us. xx

Dear Stephanie and Ollie You are both beautiful people to be around. I felt I was there with you, visiting beautiful places. Thank you for your fantastic vlog❤

Breathtaking church, stunning music. Can relate to your reaction. Ollie you did well on your on your own. My greatest regret not visiting Italy even though my sister was living there.

Thank you for sharing Verona and the beautiful church. Well done Ollie.

Lovely thankyou for taking us along as well. Really beautiful and a little bit of opera what more can you ask for. ❤

yet another gorgeous city - i so love travelling with you two. ollie you did a great job dont let anyone tell you otherwise - except of course for the shoe incident! i wish you could have filmed more footage of that incredible church! love rigiletto first opera i ever saw for a college course and also saw romeo and juliette at the shakespeare fesival in ashland, oregon - would love to see them both again!

I think Italy has certainly triumphed with that lift in the Tower. What a feat of engineering. Aaah Verona thank you for the beautiful memories.

The cathedral is so beautiful and I'd love to see one day the church in La land be restored that way.

Loved that beautiful church ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Verona is such an amazing surprise to many who travel there. It was for my husband and I when traveling through Italy on our own. So happy Oliver and Stephanie got to experience the beauty.

What a beautiful place! Now I'm ready to travel.

As far as we know, Shakespeare never visited Italy, yet Verona is the perfect setting for his play. Thanks for the reading!

Once again a fun, informative and funny vlog. I am just loving them. Ollie you are such a character and you make a lot of people happy. Thankyou both 🤗

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Thank you so much! What a lovely comment!

Lovely Oliver and Stephanie, just LOVELY The dialogue is touching and so fitting for the sheer beauty of the places you share (especially as my travelling days are limited), and of course the celebration of long and genuine friendship - simply heaven on earth. God bless you two and so look forward to your next vlog. Stay safe and healthy. God bless

I loved the quote at the end. I use it as one of my mottos. Ollie, you absolutely make me laugh out loud at time. I am totally removing Travels With My Friend. It was great to see Vivian and Curtis. I would love to see more of it. I could be very happy alone in the Annastsia suite. Ollie, when you showed your broken heel, I almost peed my.pants laughing. Trust me, I did that one, too. The arena was worth the effort. I can't wait to see where you both take us next.❤

Poor Ollie and his shoe. ❤

I absolutely love this channel! Hope you go back there one day to show us more of the city. It looks fascinating! Loved the aerial views as well.

Oh, My heart! This was so amazing! Just cannot tell you how exquisite this all was to see from here, and to be able to take part with you was even making it so much more special. Thought all the beauty of the Anastasia's Church (could never put into words what I felt in the church, my heart just pitter pattered, with all of the frescos and the lovely sculptures and it is the most spectacular church I think I have ever seen! I think Oliver, you summed it up well and your emotions and really said it all, as well. Cannot imagine though how you really did feel as being there in person, must have even stirred the heart more, but do not see how, as it brought tears to my eyes, but with joy and inspiration! Truly the Oprah was beautiful and the singing delightful! Nice you met Vivienne and Simon later! Everyone looked so beautiful and handsome in their beautiful clothes especially the velvet. Great match. The Hotel was the best, and the Anastasia room was one no would ever forget if they stayed in it! You would think you died and went to heaven, between the church and the hotel while in Verona! I could not help giggling a few times (my husband wondered what I was looking at?) as you did not quite look comfortable in the Hotel Room showing the Annastasia room, when 'trying to be seated on the furniture! ' I loved it! Watching you both try to figure out 'how they worked!' When Oliver was walking and the sole of his shoe came off, I imagine was not fun to him, but have to say it was funny to hear that sound and wondered what was happening on the ground, as you wer walking along, and what was making that clicking sounds on the pavement when walking so quickly to get to the Oprah! Between you and Stephanie and the hurrying and deep breathing you both were the center of attention, in the middle of all of the crowds. I Could find you anywhere! lol (and I have no sense of direction, but could listen for clicking, deep breathing, and there you are!" ( Am being just plain ridiculous of course, but it was cute ) Poor Oliver and all the stairs he climbed in the Arena! He made it to the top although had to turn off the video in order to handle it all. Those steps looked like they were truly unimaginably hard for most anyone to climb! I think you had to step up more than you would think? Well, you both are lots of fun! And the places you take us cannot be beaten, they are absolutely grand! Thank you so much as never in my whole life will I get to ever see all of this and yet my grandfather came from Italy, but yet for me, it would be impossible to ever know the life led without these particular vlogs! I certainly enjoy everyone! It makes my heart glad to know you both are such dear friends and it shows with each vlog you do have a wonderful time, too!

Thanks for another great and interesting video Ollie and STeph. Here's to next time. X

Thanks for sharing another fabulous trip!

As always, loved your adventure in Verona.

At the desk the “I am only very small” sounded like a mummy Isabel comment ❤😂

Loved it all, especially the editing. Well done!

Beautiful vlog! Love from Mary in Southern California 💗

Oh Noooo. Now I have another place to put on my bucket list…… this bucket is getting very full from you two jetsetters. Thank you again for transporting me to another place in the world. Why do they have to be so far from Australia though….. 😢😢😢 ❤🥰

Look down…on the streets you will see fossils embedded in the stones…same in the seats of the coliseum. Loved that when I was there.

beautiful city! thanks for sharing 😉

I totally agree with you Oliver... You are extremely lucky to have a friend like Stephanie, and she is just as lucky to have a friend like you... Unfortunately it is a very rare thing nowadays.. You are absolutely right, real friends are those who make the best memories with you. . ... Looking forward to meeting both Stephanie and you some day 😊

As usual; a most pleasurable way for me to indulge in my favorite hobby; study. Thank you so much for every meaty tidbit!! Love this channel!!! ❤

Absolutely beautiful presentation. I loved the Janet Jackson comment. Funny 😅

beautiful church and i think ollie needs to carry an emergency pack with him 😘🤣

That church! Amazing!

That church is amazing, I was overwhelmed with emotion. I have never felt so spiritually moved before. You captured it’s essence completely. Thanks Ollie ❤️🇨🇦🍁

Ollie-o, Ollie-o, wherefore art thou Ollie-o? I always found it funny that most people think Juliet is asking "where he is" when in fact, she's basically asking "why do you have to be Romeo" based on the troubles they face.

Stunning city 🥰🥰

Incredible designs in that church!

I absolutely loved Ollie’s reading of the prologue to Romeo and Juliet! I was in that play in college and directed it twice when I became a high school theater teacher!

Encore une belle visite et un amusement virtuel partagé.... Vraiment partagé ??? C'est bizarre quoiqu'il en soit merci

Oliver, I am born and raised Riman Catholic and I agree; St. Anastacia was phenomenal. And, I have seen The Sistien Chapel and St. Peters(2 times).

I love watching these videos. Thank you, so much. 🌸🙋🏻‍♀️

What beautiful music you played whilst looking at the church ❤

Oh my word! So beautiful.

Absolutely divine video I was right back to Italy where I spent my summers in the 70s

Loved Verona so much. The balcony is not the most beautiful part and I was not impressed by it at all, but the rest of the city is magnificent.

The history, beauty and joy of sharing this city with solo Ollie and joined in by Stephanie made this blog another treasure. It was much too short.

Loved, loved, loved, it brought me back to my youth in this beautiful, amazing town in my interail trips across Europe. Love from Lisboa

Stunning church,you could have shown it for later longer!I was so moved by it.Thats from a plain proddy!

God communicates to us through the good, the true and the beautiful. You experienced God’s communication through beauty communicating the truth in that Church. You both put a great deal of effort into these travel videos. Very well done!

Had notifications on and didn’t get a notification grr … what a cool convertible chair

Love the tower!❤

Ollie said it. Italy is a triumph. Oh I want to be there, not now they’re having a heat wave, in early Spring. Perfect.

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Here in Verona the weather is perfect, sunny, gently windy with max of 80°F and min of 62°F. The heat wave is in central/south Italy.

Going there next week with granddaughter!

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I Hope you have Great weather & a Great time!!!

Thank you both so much once again! I’ve learned so much from these episodes. Love to you both and your families 😊

Thanks for taking us along for some exercise in Verona! ;-P Beautiful places to explore, as always. I'm amazed that Filippo is an opera singer, too. x

Love all your videos, this one is meaningful to me as I got to spend a day in Verona (not near long enough). Saw the balcony, however, there were so many people and tour groups, you could not get near it. Spent time in the colosseum, which was really neat. They had an ice skating performance that weekend and the ice stage was melting as they were removing all the props. Living in Canada and surrounded by skating/hockey/curling rinks it was pretty neat seeing this in Italy in the heat of summer. You are quite right about the Basilica St. Anastasia - absolutely breathtaking. I have seen so many cathedrals and basilicas (coming from England and touring other places); yet there is always one that comes along, slightly different that seems to hit at your heart and soul. Thank you again for sharing the world with us.

Ollie you read Shakespeare very well!!!!

Such beautiful architecture everywhere. You showed such beautiful areas and great information

Lovely, just lovely.

Verona is my favourite city in Italy.

Amazing Art wow Beautiful Church ⛪️

Olliver, you read the Bard very well.