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Day 10: Florence
... Michelangelo, which is on the top of a hill and overlooks the entirety of Florence across the river. My God, was it beautiful. Not only could we see the whole city, but also tumbling Tuscan hills with Cyprus trees and an old city wall unrolling into the distance. Not a bad couple of hours to spend in the afternoon. The hike up to Piazzale Michelangelo was strenuous, so we took our time coming back down the hill and across the river on our way to Santa Croce, a cathedral that houses ...
Florence
... to see the leaning tower was spectacular, which was built in 1372. We got a few snaps, including the typical tourist photos where you try and straighten the tower, much to our embarrassment! It had to be done though! Tickets to go up the tower were €15 each. A rip off considering you can only spend 20 minutes going up and coming down! But we had to do it, after all we had come all that way. The tower is currently on a 5 degree lean to vertical, due ...
The big guns.
... us to cover all bases, by paying a visit to the big guns: Goya, Rembrandt, Botticelli, Carravagio, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and not forgetting the fourth and often overlooked turtle Donatello. An amazing experience to be amongst such priceless works of art, however after our 94th painting of Madonna and Jesus, we gave in and found some amazing Gelato!
Florence itself is beautiful, ...
Bus trip - Take 2
... some more arches and I dragged my engineers back onto the street into the heat of the day, walked some more and William spotted "subway" for lunch, we continued our walk to find a Tuscan restaurant that was supposed to air conditioned, if it was I am the pope!!! The food was great, William is about to turn into a pizza he has eaten it every day and Chris could be turning into a small pastry at the rate he is eating them...!!!! Very hot and sick of walking we ...
ROMEing Around (Clever...I know)
... living room area, so there are 2 rooms with 2 people in it and 1 room with 3 in it. After unpacking and settling in, we all went to a nice dinner in the middle of a piazza. It was so crowded and there was a band playing in the middle of the piazza, which was really cool. Dinner time is around 9/10ish here, which is very different too. Then we went to a bar called Old Stove, which was really fun. It had a fair share of both Americans and Italians so we were able to meet a lot ...
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