Il Borgo di Villa Bossi-Pucci
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Day 10: Florence
We started the day with a major bummer: Bradley left for home bright and early, which makes me really sad. I miss him already and I'm jealous that he gets to see our pooch and smoosh his little Louie face. There are a ton of dogs in Europe, by the way, and people bring them everywhere with them. We have FaceTimed with Lou a couple times to make us (me) feel better... but I digress. Anyway, I miss my husband a lot. Today's drizzly, cold weather matched the gloominess of Bradley's ...
Florentine Enchantment
... in hand and plenty of breaks for coffee or gelato. Our next stop was the very old San Lorenzo Church, looking more like a large medieval building made from tiny handmade clay bricks, wooden doors and trusses. It was quite substantial in size and notably very old. And in true Italian style, another amazing wonder was around the next corner – the lavishly decorated San Giovanni Baptistry and the Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo) Cathedral. ...
Wednesday - Florence
Well... a day behind... apologies to our faithful few as we are now a day behind... but wait... we'll explain why..... we decided to make a day of it yesterday and took our chances heading toward Scandicci with some vague directions from our hosts...... head toward Scandicci, park for free and catch tramvia to the centre of Florence...... Tramvia? we asked.... not sure whether this was a bus or a train... but we thought what the hell.... so i (J) did my ...
Travelling to Tuscany
... well to any of you males) is the important stuff:
It's a series 1 hatch (I think to J a surprise upgrade is like a series 5 or even better). It doesn't matter what I say here, yep Jenn, it's a BMW, yay!
Ok, so it actually took a lot of counselling for the fact that we had a BMW to sink in with the lunitic in the passenger's seat, along with "maybe we should name the GPS" to illlicit even a "I couldn't give a **** about the car and you want a name for ...
Love Florence!
... this was a little steep we decided to go to the post office after getting some more money and guess what, the stamps were only 1 Euro each. This guy was well and truly trying to rip of tourists….. punk!
Florence is a very easy place to get around and has lots of great shops and plenty of museums for those that are interested. Jodes and I have both been here before as I mentioned above so it was nice to be able to walk around without using a map ...
Location
Amenities
- Swimming pool
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Free parking
- Kitchenette