Sheraton Firenze Florence

... for our walk through the walled village. There is a 14th century fort with make up part of the walls. Today it is used as a prison - your not supposed to take photos of it, but I snapped a couple off before I knew... luckily I was not spotted by the local polizi. The town was cute for sure but I'm not sure it deservered all the accolades given to it by other travellers we had met in Lucca. Having said that we did take more photos than usual.

Hello everyone,<br>We had such fun today!! The square had it's first ever market day or flea market. It was filled with cheeses which by the way Percino was our favorite and the fresh sliced procuitto was unbelievable. We just walked around all day. The first part of the day we did two loads of wash and dry which cost $18 us dollars. Then we had wine free and paid and had a great time. We then came back to ...

... the knee. Very, very chic and way out of Missouri league. Anyway, we will be here tomorrow and since we took pictures of almost anything worth seeing we will send what we have today and probably not have much tomorrrow. Oh, but tomorrow in Palio Campo square it is market day, aka flea market. All the tables were set up today so that will be interesting and we will be doing some wash. Talk to you all tomorrow and signing out for now......<br>Love Mick and Lisa

... Once it is finished and the black screen appears again do not close out as now you can hit the white arrow and watch it without interruption because it is fully downloaded. So hit the arrow the first time and walk away then come back and when it is the black screen again hit the arrow and you won't have any interruptions.<br>Chow

... difference, so much so that Kate wondered why some of the lesser-known artists' work was even hung. (Kate: An insult I know and I'm sorry! I just couldn't help but wonder!) Similar to Siena, there was a ton of art dedicated to the Virgin Mary, who seems to be highly revered in Italian culture. The Uffizi also holds a tremendous number of sculptures and the Florentine artists paid tremendous homage to their Greek and Roman ...

... for those of you who haven&#8217;t tried it, he cooks the sauce from scratch, cooks it for hours and it is fantastic.<br><br>The next morning we got up and packed the bags and had breakfast. It was then time to head off to the station and catch the train to Rome. After some discussion about upgrading our tickets to Eurorail (a 2hr journey vs a 4hr journey but a significant increase in price) we decided to stick with what we had and got on the train to start the next leg of our adventure.

... new technique using no wood or scalping. it is the tallest building in Florence also. <br><br>The political square is very large and has many stautes located there because when the Duke was living in the Palace of the Government he liked statues and wanted them in front of the Palace. the original David was in front from 1804-1074. Now is in a museum in Florence. The David statue was made by Michealangelo and it took him from 1501-1504 to build. <br ...

Piazza della Repubblica, the square where my school is located is in the historical center of Florence, the birth location of the Renaissance.  Today I took a tour around the center of Florence and saw many famous landmarks and churches: Santa Croce, Il Duomo, Gli Uffizi, The Science and Anthropology ...

Day 35 (W) Io ho svegliato tarde cosi no coffe e cornetto per me stamattina. Today we are meeting on the steps of the Duomo before we get to go see Mike's famous David, I'm sure the rest of today's reflections will be filled with everything I take away from today's lecture. The David is simply amazing, turning the corner and staring down the 17 foot David was like Christmas day when you were a little kid. The corridor was lined with 6 unfinished works that ...

... spare on the Euro rail pass. We had heard about the little gothic town of Siena and cheerfully hopped on the train. Unfortuantely I ended up being busting for the toilet the whole 1.5 hour journey as it wasnt a fancy train with a toilet that I had expected. We also had no books or iPods and were forced to.....ugh...TALK to each other.....shudder.... Anyhoo, the train wound through cosy valleys and into tunnels and we slowly noticed a ...