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Day 10: Florence

A travel blog entry by heathertunstall

... Michelangelo, which is on the top of a hill and overlooks the entirety of Florence across the river. My God, was it beautiful. Not only could we see the whole city, but also tumbling Tuscan hills with Cyprus trees and an old city wall unrolling into the distance. Not a bad couple of hours to spend in the afternoon. The hike up to Piazzale Michelangelo was strenuous, so we took our time coming back down the hill and across the river on our way to Santa Croce, a cathedral that houses ...

Day trip to Florence

A travel blog entry by hannaharrison

... finished praying. Clever idea that only the Romans would think of. The Duomo was spectacular withs it's green, red and white tiles, it took centre stage of the Piazza and every angle offered amazing views. The Ponte Vecchino with it's Expensive gold shops was a looking not shopping experience. After an exhausting day touring Florence we headed back to Greve, our last night before heading to Lucca for a one night stay, looking forward to spending a night in a medieval ...

Pisa or Pizza

A travel blog entry by vveurope

... the accordion and sang to us. We headed into the hall where we had the most incredible 2 hour dinner with all the wine we could drink (and we did pretty good on that front). We started with an amazing antipasto, followed by pasta noodles and a piece of the best lasagna I have ever tasted (don't tell Mrs. Graffi). It was so good and so light that I would have loved a larger piece but our next course was pork and salad finished off with a bit of ...

Bruce, Bruce, Bruce and rain, rain, rain

A travel blog entry by cambs070

Scott and I just went to our first Bruce Springsteen concert. I know that Brian O'Sullivan just dropped his Diet Coke in shock. I can see why people go to his shows multiply times. It was an incredible 4 hour show. The encore set lasted almost an hour. How the Italians love songs like Shout, CCR's Who Will Stop the Rain, and many others. Bruce really didn't speak to the audience, he just ...

Our first day in Florence

A travel blog entry by mjoeroy

We woke a bit soar from being in a new bed. We went right up to our beautiful terrace. Right at that moment we knew we had chosen the right place :-). With a fabulous view as you will see on the video below.
We headed to the Duomo. It was only a 15min walk but it took us a bit longer because I wanted to stop at several boutiques on the way :-). They have great little stores all along the ...