Franchi Hotel Florence

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Via G Sgambati 28 Florence, Tuscany, Italy, 50127, 39-055-315425

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This painting portrays the...

Today was a free day in Florence, although there were a few things that were included. For lack of a better plan, we all headed to the included activities. First up was a leather demonstration, specifically on how to tell the difference between real and fake leather. Turns out that the four main methods commonly used are pretty useless these days. For instance you can no longer rely on the 'smell test' as that can be beaten by a leather 'perfume'. Nor can you rely the 'flame test' or the labe...

Florence, Italy croucher
I just want to sleep... but what about Florence?

Getting up this morning was hard, probably due to the lack of sleep the night before. But get up I did, I had no choice really. I decided to skip breakfast and have a proper look at the damage I had done to my finger the night before. I tried to peel the band aids off but only got to the last band aid (there were 4 and none of them had managed to stop the blood). I couldn't get past the last band aid as the pain became so unbearable that I felt ill. It was at this point that I decided to I sh...

Florence, Italy croucher
Florence...

Ciao! Crazy as this sounds, I am a little disappointed in Florence. It's a beautiful city, but there are just too many darn people here! Let's back up a step... I really didn't want to leave the peace and tranquility of the Cinque Terre and I especially didn't want to leave the beaches. But I packed up and hopped a train out of town with a few of the folks I met there who were also headed to Florence. We stopped in Pisa on the way, walked to the tower, took a few photos, and walked back to th...

Florence, Tuscany, Italy rhodges
Mumma Mia!

to be continued...

Florence, Tuscany, Italy sarahbowen
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... 8230;there was no car. Dad, Alex and I went on a mission to find out were it had gone to and we found out that it had been towed. So we took a nice cab ride nearly collecting bicycles, scooters and nearly hitting a bus to the local cop shop were we paid our fine but then found out that the car was in an impound lot another 45 minutes from where we were. We collected the car and went back to the hotel to have another roadside dinner. 

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