Floralia B&B Florence

... headed into the cemetery. It was actually very ornate, the headstones were huge (I remember one being a life size statue of 2 people dancing), and some were in rooms/buildings, I’m sure there is a proper word for them. We each broke off and strolled around separately, then convened together and started walking further up the road. We made it to the Piazza we had wanted to go to, took tons of pictures, and goofed off (I can’t express enough how ...

... Cranberry Sauce, Stuffing, Potatoes, and Mixed Vegetables. For dessert pumpkin pie, ice cream, and apple cider! It was nice to spend the night with classmates and a few professors.

Friday night, we had yet another Thanksgiving with all of my friends. Everyone prepared their favorite dish and we spent the night telling stories of our families Thanksgivings.

I'll update you soon,

Siara

... was really good and the honey ale and double blonde were good too and certainly better than anything other Italian beer to date.


Tuesday checked out the Uffize Gallery which was excellent. All the "Grotesque" style paintings on the ceilings were really cool.

Had the Florentine specialty - Bistecca Florentina at Osteria de Benci. A T-Bone steak from a particular breed of Florentine cow which is fed and bled a certain way ...

Hi Everyone!

After an exhausting weekend in Brussels, I was in for yet another treat with cooking classes in Florence. Organized by my school, a group of us met with a chef for some lessons.

We were taught how to prepare typical Tuscan cuisine including Ribollita and Stuffed zucchini-flowers.

Everything was delicious & I look forward to trying these recipes at home!

I'll update you soon,

Siara

... time. It was funny actually, the only thing I remembered was when I went down to the toilets, which are underground. I got down there and suddenly I remembered being there before, with mum and Caroline. The queue for the ladies had been huge and then, when we finally got a cubicle, we discovered they were those funny toilets which are basically like a flushing hole in the ground that you have to squat over. I remembered being shocked by that when I was little. So ...

... people in Florence and Rome are really rude and give italy a bad name.

i was the last one to get dropped off from the taxi driver which kinda scared me but the taxi driver was really nice and kept saying people in california drive crazy huh? they get to light and just go...he was explaining what he was saying with his hands going in all directions trying to get me understand that the drivers dont stop at the traffic lights. it was funny and he was really ...

... to stay for the night so we rented them our room for a compromised rate of 15 Euro each. Turns out that's exactly what our hotel cost last night in Florence. Our train from Rome to Florence was supposed to be a Next Generation train that went 300km per hour and got us from Rome to Florence in 1 hour. However, something was wrong with it and we sat still for at least an hour and then it went only half speed so we arrived in ...

... We walked it faster then any other museum mostly taking time in the musical instrument section. From the Acamedia we walked back toward our hotel and stop for cappachino, hot cocoa and apple pie. The hot cocoa here is like pudding - John loves it! Refeuled and warmed up we hit the streets again on the hunt for a purse store I had seen. We stopped at the Piazza where David once stood and saw the other statues now on display. Here it started to rain! We ...

... did some more walking and just hung out in the city until it was time to head back to Katy's. After stupidly listening to Andrew and not validating our bus ticket (so we could try to use it later) Andrew and I got caught, and both had to pay a 45 Euro fine on the spot. I can't even begin to tell you how ****** I was!! Those who know me well know that I am a bit anal about following rules, but this is why...whenever I don't, I am always the ...

... herself, mind you she still spoke pretty good Scottish accented English. She laughingly claimed that her man was not the Italian Stallion type. Next morning we made the short trip to Pisa en route back to Nice, France. The bus hostess announced we would have an hour or so to look around, while that was plenty, the tower was more interesting than we had imagined, and is in fact the bell tower of Pisa Cathedral, it in itself a ...