Hotel Balcony 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!

... set fire to the city’s art, books, paintings, musical instruments, etc., during his famous bonfire of the vanities in 1497. A year later, Savonarola was burnt at the stake as a heretic at the very same spot!

Also located on Piazza della Signoria is the Palazzo Vecchio, the traditional seat of Florentine government. Murray and I had a look through the palazzo, which contained some pretty marbled columns and arched doorways. Also, standing ...

Apres une heure de bus dans un paysage montagneux remplis de vignoble et de plantattion d'olivier, nous somme arrive a "Greve in chianti" en toscane. Malheureusement pour nous, la saisons des visites de vignobles est terminee. Nous avons quand meme marche jusqu'au chateau montefioralle. Une fois en haut de la cote, on avait une belle vue sur les environs et puis apres avoir marcher au travers du chateau, nous avonas repris la route du village ...

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 ...

... the merry go round like little girls! I really enjoyed myself it was so relaxing!

Of course, when I got back today (after flight being delayed for techincal problems) I was slapped in the face with the fact that people have interviews, people have gotten jobs, we have a paper due friday, the american store doesnt have pumpkin filling anymore so how can it really be thanksgiving and a ton of work to do, BUTTTT it was such a good weekend that I'm ok with it all:)

BESOS

You can't help but bump into something historic or monumental or impressive every time you turn a corner here. One Piazza (plaza) leads to another and statues of impressive physiques in impossible positions are everywhere. The churches here are massive, made of stone or marble and the ceilings are so high I wondered that they spent the extra time and materials to make it so. I also spent ...

... authentic Italian pasta dish and salad. We were looking forward to curling up in bed with our new books, but we came into our room at 8.15pm to discover that one of our roomies was already curled up and sleeping, so we thoughtfully turned off the lights and took our books down to the common room, with its wooden benches and loud television competing with dozens of voices. Read one chapter and retired for the night.