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Day 10: Florence
... of Michelangelo, Galileo, Niccolo Medicci and Dante, as well as works by Donatello. On our way there, we walked through a little alleyway where school children were being let out for the day and families were there picking them up (no one was in a car; everyone walked or rode bikes). It was a very cute, Italian, everyday scene, and we enjoyed watching it unfold. All the parents picking up their kids had some kind of snack for them -- that must be some kind of tradition or regular ...
Day 9: Florence
... so we didn't go in. Hopefully it will be less crowded during the week. We kept going until we got to Ponte Vecchio, which is a 13th-century bridge with shops and restaurants all along it. What a neat place!!! We really loved it. We waked over the bridge, ate some gelatto, window shopped and pined over $350 leather jackets and $2,500 necklaces. Bradley, of course, wanted the pigs made out of slime that you throw on the ground and ...
Cinque Terre, Tre Amiche, Una Jacqueline
... have had thus far. In case you thought this blog was not absurd enough, I will describe it. We had the local specialty, fried bread with cheese in it (my kind of people) as well as local white wine. Incidentally this happened to be the best wine I have ever had, but due to previous experiences (see last week's blog), I stuck to one glass. Then I had fresh caught mussels stuffed and drenched in tomato sauce, followed by local strawberries and lemons ...
24 hours in Florence
... a pub crawl and I decided that though I was tired and hadn't eaten I should still go and hopefully have a good time. As we started walking I was talking to a guy from Singapore and one from Australia. Me and the Australian, Daniel, started chatting and became fast friends. When we got to the first stop we all had some champagne and I was introduced to a Welsh girl named Rachael. The three of us got to chatting and mostly making fun of the other people on the pub crawl and talking ...
More Florence Fun
... secret” places here late at night?) We couldn’t pass up the opportunity, so we decided to split a kabob between the 4 of us and they directed us to their partner in crime down the road. (This all sounds a lot more sketchy than it really was haha…I promise it’s safe) I don’t know how, but we somehow found the road he told us to go to and I saw a young guy wiping his mouth with a napkin, so immediately I knew he’d just been to the bakery. ...
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