Four Seasons Florence

... dans les jardins!

ensuite on est aller voir le vrai "David" de michealange. installer au bout d,un aller d'un petit muse au gros prix! c'est impressionant de voir sa grandeur et surtout de penser qu'il a ete realise dans un seul bloc de marbre, sculte a la main avec les outils de l'epoque. Comme dans tout bon muse, il est impossible prendre des photos!

... swimming in the current and playing riverside. (Either they were beavers or they were the largest rats I have ever seen. I shudder to think…)

We kept up our walk toward Florence’s historic city center, finally making it to Ponte Vecchio – a beautiful and unique 14th-century bridge that is less like a bridge and more like a shopping plaza built over the water! Out of all the bridges in Florence – and there are a lot ...

... pour nous, au village , il y a une cantine!! un endroit ou l'on peu deguster du vin toute l'annee. Dans une ambiance de cave a vin, il y a des machines distributrices d'echantillion de vin. Entre 0.60 et 6.00 euro l'echantillion! De cette facon, nous avons pus gouter a une vingtaines de bouteilles de la region.
Il y avait meme une degustation d'huile d'olive et emilie n'a pu s'empecher d'en achter une petite bouteille!

partie de pise pour se rendre a Florence en toscane. On s'approche tranquillement de la region de Chianti ! Encore uen ville magnifique ou l'on ne peut pratiquement rien prendre en phtoto tellement les rues sont etroites. Le duomo, le 3e plus haut de l'europe est visible de tres loin. Ensuite, de piazza en piazza, nous avons traverser la ville pour voir des tres grand edifice , souvent construit avant meme la decouverte de l'amerique!! Nous avons ...

... I went into the chino to see if they have duct tape to fix it and told them what happened. After figuring out she did not have the tape and there was really no way to fix it she gave me a brand new one! I was so happy!

(This is completely random but I feel like adding it in here) - a new fruit ship just opened right next to our super market and I went in the other day to just get a pear and the guy was like "thats all your getting a pear" and I was like yeah and he ...

... me and turned out to be the hostel manager. Wierd and dodgy, I thought! The hostel was overbooked or something, so I was staying at the hotel across the street. The staff were very nice when I got to the hotel, but, being a cheap hotel in Italy, it is not really my style. I always think that a good hostel is much much better than a cheap hotel.

On the up side, it is fairly clean and warm and I do have an AMAZING view of Florence. I mean you open the ...

... while im still in Florence. Well after that sara realized that her teachers number and her cell phone is in the bag that is lost and we have no way in getting in touch with her teacher. So I pulled our my cell phone and the card that my dad made me with all the important numbers and good thing my dad is on top of things because the LDM school operator phone number was on there. We I called them and they were able to give me Patra (Sara’s teacher) number I tried ...

... had the 13 or 15 inch pizza (before finishing off 3/4 of my very filling pasta). The people in Florence are so friendly and warm. They will greet you when you walk past them in the streets, wink at you as you make eye contact... it makes for very pleasant interaction. Unlike the people of Venice who do seem a lot more reserved and a little more serious. Lets see what day 2 brings us...

... we had to rearrange some plans..but it's all good. Went to see "David" and were also amazed by all the paintings on wood from the 1500's. We used the audio tour as I am not well versed in the art and architecture...and it was definitely helpful. Next we climbed the tower at the Iduamo...463 steps up with a spectacular view of the city and the surrounding country side---Tuscany. We imagined that the villa we are going to tomorrow was up on ...

... not, we take his map (where he marked our path), thanked him kindly and head back into the rain. His map lead us to what appears to be an equally nice hotel at a fair rate. Our room is huge and has a mural of the Sistine Chapel 'Creation' scene on our ceiling. We take the time to clean up and adjust plans for time at the museums. The previous day's events make for a nice long sleep and we head downstair for breakfast. The ...