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Day 13 - Florence
This day is also known as the day Jess buys a watch.
I woke up in what (I thought) was plenty of time to catch my flight, but missed my 5am Schiphol airport train stop so I missed my check-in window. I had to pay an outrageous amount for a substitute flight to Italy that day, but it was worth it...I got on a flight 2 hours later, and in 4 hours …
Day 14 - Florence
Florence is in the Tuscan region so you have to assume it's beautiful - it is. It's also small enough to walk form one end to the other in half an hour (only 300k people live here). It's considered a cultural, artistic and architectural gem because of it's vast history (ever heard of Opera, Galileo, Michelangelo, or the Medici family? - all of them …
Walking Florence
The Accademia houses the original David by Michelangelo, but the queue to get in makes the copy of it in Piazza della Signoria quite attractive (it can be seen for free, and who but an art expert would tell the difference?).
The Duomo is certainly an impressive building. It is obvious the budget has been spent on the external decoration, …
Pisa
It's a two hour train journey from Venice to Florence, but in sardine conditions: not to be undertaken without a seat reservation. These mainline trains are ultra-modern and quite comfortable, so it was a bit of a shock to get on to a local train from Florence to Pisa – it was like stepping back a century. The train rattled along quite nicely …
Day 10: Florence
... of Michelangelo, Galileo, Niccolo Medicci and Dante, as well as works by Donatello. On our way there, we walked through a little alleyway where school children were being let out for the day and families were there picking them up (no one was in a car; everyone walked or rode bikes). It was a very cute, Italian, everyday scene, and we enjoyed watching it unfold. All the parents picking up their kids had some kind of snack for them -- that must be some kind of tradition or regular ...
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