Hotel Toscana 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!

... zzzzzzs while Murray went online for a while (the free hotel Wi-Fi here actually has a decent connection!). Around 7:30pm, we walked around our neighborhood and found a neat little trattoria for dinner. Murray and I both started with different soups, and for mains I had pasta while Murray had (yuck) liver and onions. I also had my first ever half-glass of alcohol (wine) since getting pregnant, but apparently, Baby Boo didn’t like it. We quickly ...

... 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 ...

... So after 3 nights of staying out late this was the Florence Abroad Bar Crawl. So how could we pass it up? ...We couldn't we went to the bar crawl where we were able to meet lots of other study abroad students....but also get lots of free alcohol which ended in an unforgettable night but rough morning. We were given unlimited beer and sangria at the first bar along with a free shot at each bar after that. There were four bars total but my friends and I hopped out after the third. 
Florence, Tuscany, Italy kemuelle

Today was a great day.The test was kinda tricky at parts but i got through it and that was a relief. after class i needed to go to home and get some lunch before my next class. i left early from home to go pick up a package. it was the hardest place to find and i was almost late to my Italian class but i made sure i had enough time to get lost so that was good. I feel that in florence it is easy to get lost but easy to find your way home as well.

after Italian class i went ...

... to the past and present. When you plan to go, don't worry about getting there early in the morning when lines are at their longest, wait until the afternoon, providing the cathedral and bell tower remain open, and then visit. The lines may look long but not as long as they are in the morning and they do move quickly. I urge everyone to include this in your itinerary when planning your visit to this Renaissance city.

Ciao from Florence!

... bill and choked 2 coffee and 2 pastries18 Euros about 28 in US. The pastry I had was 6 but it had about 20 almonds in it. We met a young man from Zurich on a bike travel for a week, whew not for us. Back to the hotel to work on the blog. Once again an internet problem, it was available this time at a cost of 5 Euro for 1/2 hr. We managed to get off 2 reports. Head off to dinner the hotel recommended a place we stopped by and didn't like it so head out again ...

... grazie a Irene!) I have developed a secret grudge against all of my friends who are lucky enough to be staying for a second term (I suppose it's not secret, since I let them know it every time I see them and we discuss how I'm leaving). I do not know where to begin my farewell blog to Firenze- I know I'll have a follow up "I hate my life" blog when I get back to New York, but for now.... I will never forget my first night here and how scared I was to be by myself! How ...