San Giorgio e Olimpic
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Travel Blogs from Florence
Venice to Florence
From Alices Diary
"It is time to pack up and move on. Just loved Venice but now looking forward to Florence. Last night we worked out the best way to walk with our cases to get to the ferry and it worked only two bridges to climb over before we got there. Catching the ferry was as easy as pie and we got to the station in no time about 2 …
Florence - Day 2 what a place
From Alice's diary
"After a normal continental breakfast in the hotel we started of quite . We bought tickets to go on the open roof bus that drives around Florence and you can get on and off where ever you want so decided that our first stop was the Statue of David by Michael Angelo. We were both overcome with the beauty of everything, to …
Art in Florence & Italian Cars!
It was quite noisy last night trying to sleep (apart from the Saturday night partygoers coming home at all hours of the morning). The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence. We are staying within 5 minutes walk of it, and last night at midnight all of the bells from the Duomo (and Richard seemed to think all …
Day 10: Florence
... that didn't stop Mom, Dad, Tom and me from walking around the whole city while CJ worked on some schoolwork. We had a late start because we putzed around the apartment a bit and Mom and Dad found a cool market where they bought us some food for the next few days. When we ventured out, we walked out to Ponte Vecchio again (can't get enough of that bridge!) and over to the other side, where we had lunch, wine, and the first cannoli of the trip. We continued along the Arno River ...
A drunken tour, and sampling cow guts in Tuscany
... of Emma’s cousin. In the words of our very pleasant, but amusingly abrupt waiter, “it is food like the Mama makes”.
It was a memorable meal. The Japanese girl, Mirai ordered the most horrific smelling, tasting and textured dish of broiled cow gut (no ****- except perhaps in the dish), which she loved. Alternatively, having tasted a piece, I was overcome by a sensation for the whole meal that a piece of cow gut was in ...