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Florence for 2 days
Florence is lovely, very relaxing after busy Rome.
Decided to have a night out and a bit of a drinking session, lots of fun on the merry go round, free drinks from the Albanian bar man after telling him how stunning we found Albania, head ache the next day.
We spent the next day sightseeing, Santa Maria del fiore cathedral was amazing, went …
Day 10: Florence
... 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 9: Florence
... so we didn't go in. Hopefully it will be less crowded during the week. We kept going until we got to Ponte Vecchio, which is a 13th-century bridge with shops and restaurants all along it. What a neat place!!! We really loved it. We waked over the bridge, ate some gelatto, window shopped and pined over $350 leather jackets and $2,500 necklaces. Bradley, of course, wanted the pigs made out of slime that you throw on the ground and ...
Florence - where it all began
... this city is where they tortured the monk Savonarola and burned him at the stake.
The two major museums, Accademia (where Michelangelo's David lives) and the Uffizi Gallery, are difficult to get into without a reservation or the patience to wait for hours in line. We decided that the best way as well as the way to get more out of the experience was to join a tour. We decided on Artviva Walking Tours and picked their ...
My Return to Europe
... to our hotel I called my good friend and former housemate in Copenhagen, Francesco, to arrange meeting up the next day. Dad had scheduled a tour of the Uffizi Gallery, which was right around the corner from our hotel. There was a lot of great art and I recognized a few famous paintings and sculptures. It also had a great view of Ponte Vecchio, the oldest bridge in Florence given that it was the only one to survive WWII...because ...