Hotel Costantini 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!

... 8211; if I was having a baby, and whether it was a “bambino o bambina” (boy or girl). In returned gestures and broken Italian, I told her that indeed I was having a baby, but I didn’t yet know its gender.

Long story short, this little old woman had me stand up while she stooped down in front of me, and then – without warning – she actually began rubbing my belly (hello!) and pinching my hips and murmuring several ...

... 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 ...

... a pasion fruit mojito that was quiet good! Then I had little pizza's and brushetta and Loved it! We went out to a couple of bars after and of course I ended up speaking mostly spanish to random people when I tried to speak italian, but I could really understand everything because they are so similar.
Saturday morning we got up and went to the markets all over. LEATHER LEATHER LEATHER. I was on a mission to get a leather jacket and I found the most beautiful dark purple ...

... traffic. They don't even know how to do the "passegiata" properly, not like how they do it in Sorrento, Lecce and Siracusa - the leisurely evening promenade with family and friends, to see and to be seen.

And so after the old lady shooed me away, I wandered on a few more steps wandering where the hell was this first street I need to get onto. Luckily, as I walked a few dozen steps, I found it. Relief! From that point, it was easy. In fact, I ended giving another ...

... what can you do. its italy. soon enough i will be at my home sweet home where i cannot wait to be cold! freezing cold. bring on the ac and some ice cold showers....no big deal.

so i boarded and it was hot but i thought once it started going that it would cool off. well i was totally wrong. instead of cooling off, it just got hotter and hotter. i tried reading and writing in my journal but i could not bare the heat. i was in a sana for four hours and the train ...

... hostel offers. Always a good thing to learn a little bit about the places you see. Yesterday afternoon we went to the Uffizi Gallery, which is the worlds best collection of Renaissance paintings etcetc. That took up most of the afternoon because we had to wait so long in line. This afternoon we took a little trip to Siena, which is a nice little town to spend some lazy hours in. We almost missed the last train to Florence though ...

... which was an easy flight but a slight headache getting from the airport to the town of Sitges where we are staying. It is beautiful here and we are loving how close we are to the Mediterranean Sea (again, see flickr)! We'll post more about Sitges and Barcelona soon. Until then, we wish all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving. Who knows what that will bring to us here in Spain. - J

... for me to collect my stomach and Dave to collect some picnic items, which always include tomatoes, basil and cheese plus some yogurt, bananas and saltines to settle my stomach. All better by the time we arrived. First stop a new hat for Dave. The one he picked up in Cinque Terra a couple weeks ago was all done! Sara found a beautiful necklace and matching earrings and the rest was recorded on camera. Finally made it to Sienna ...