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7th city
Florence is busy with markets and street sellers - didn't 'do it' for me. While the boys went to Modena Marinella (ferrari museum) by train one day - I tried with to shop with little success. Had NYE here
Day 10: Florence
We started the day with a major bummer: Bradley left for home bright and early, which makes me really sad. I miss him already and I'm jealous that he gets to see our pooch and smoosh his little Louie face. There are a ton of dogs in Europe, by the way, and people bring them everywhere with them. We have FaceTimed with Lou a couple times to make us (me) feel better... but I digress. Anyway, I miss my husband a lot. Today's drizzly, cold weather matched the gloominess of Bradley's ...
Day 5 - The Tuscany Tour
... the thought of being subtle and polite never crossing my mind. After that we headed to the Maria Novella Train Station to meet for our Tour of Tuscany. We hopped on a pretty awesome bus with about 30 other couples and we were on our way. After an hour and a half of beautiful Italian country side and windy roads through the hills we arrived In Sienna, Italy. Sienna is a small Medieval town that has had many feuds with Florence through its history. We hung out in ...
Cinque Terre
... fried anchovies from a paper cone in Manarola....'nough said? And himself had pizza. We then caught the train past Cornelia (#3) and got off in Vernazza. This is one of the town destroyed in the 10/25/12 flood. Still lots of work to be done, but what amazing progress they made. We had lunch overlooking the water and watched boats being launched, swimmers, sunbathers and small children unattended playing ...
Eat. Pray. Love.
... took place in a church and had us all praying to whatever god or gods for a quick end: climbing the Duomo. With nearly 500 steps, a walkway between Brunelleschi's domes and an ascent up narrow corridors, this is no stroll in the park. Toss in the fact that it's been in the high 30s recently, and you get an experience that ressembles what I think climbing the inside of the Great Pyramid at Giza must be like. We set out early in the morning, to ...