Hotel San Giorgio 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!

... Ponte Vecchio is the only bridge not to have been blown up by the Nazis in 1944. It now serves as Florence’s “diamond district” – this bridge-slash-shopping-plaza has been lined with small jewelry stores for decades because a rich Medici family member who once lived nearby the bridge didn’t like the smell of the butcher shops that originally were located there (bad smell), so he ordered jewelry stores to replace all the ...

... 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 ...

... right next door and then one of the main squares (with the merry go round) is in front. FIrst thing I did was go get amaretto Gillatto at Casey's favorite place. It was AMAZING> they gave you soooo much and I had it on a nice big cone and we walked to the palazzo vecchio. Nicole was already there with her friends they were staying at a hostel and we all got ready to go out to dinner at this place that was Apertivo where once you ordered a drink it was all you can eat. I ...

1. I'm glad I spent the last four years in Boulder, learning how to rule the road as a pedestrian. If I had come from a place where I didn't think that cars would stop if I stepped out in front of them, I'd still be standing on one side of the road at the crosswalk (or zebra-pronounced zeh-bra- crossing, as the brits say!) watching the cars zoom by.

2. The cars are so dinky here! And I say that in the nicest way possible. I ...

... and sunglasses for umbrellas and ponchos.

Next day did a biking wine tour of Tuscany, 20km around the Chianti region with wine and olive oil tastings. A bit mean when they only take you 5km before lunch and then expect you to do the rest once full and wined up!

Winery was Corti, an Italian royalty family since they managed to pop out a Pope at some point.

... to us. Nice right!) so a 2 night trip to Florence turned out to be about 6 days long.... :) It was fantastic having a kitchen which we could actually cook real food in, no check out time, and we could leave all our stuff lying it without worrying about someone taking it :) The best thing was also the room we were in, as the girl whose room we were staying in was actually a tour guide so she had books on Austria, Switzerland, Europe and Italy.... JACKPOT! The funniest thing was ...