Living in Verona a city filled with so much manmade beauty, sometimes you forget that on your doorstep is the natural architecture of the Italian landscape. The Italian Cypress tree probably being the most memorable: watching Kenneth Branaghs 'Much Ado About Nothing' firmly cemented and romantisized this for me as a young teenager back in Somerset.With almost spring like temperatures our walk took us through the Negrar Valley, followed by lunch at Trattoria alla Porchetta, the closet thing I've had to a Sunday Roast for a while.