Ac Firenze

... after all. Oh, and, by the by, the Medici have left their mark on so many buildings its ridiculous. Mom found a reference to them being tyrannical in her book and she said "I thought they must be." And I was like... AC teaches history, yo! ...Sort of. ;P ...

24 hours after leaving Spain...and we finally made it to Florence aka Firenze. Before we left Barcelona yesterday, we hit up the Las Ramblas and the beach after sleeping in late. We walked and shopped all the way down the big street and saw the ...

... we had a set time to walk in and see Michelangelo's David - at 12:30.  That gave us the morning to experience downtown Firenze.   We set out for the city bus that picked up just a block down the road from our hotel (our Hotel was south of ...

... up probably a mile or two south of anything in the middle of a bunch of mansions on an enormous hill overlooking all of Firenze.  Needless to say we took some really incredible pictures from way on top of this hill we mistakenly found.  This ...

... will be dreaming of this for years to come I'm sure, so why sleep as I'm living my fantasies? The chilly wind from the AC blowing my hair as we cruise along the scenic landscapes of Italy... It feels like I've experienced true happiness for the first ...

... a basilica and a cathedral, whatever, more of those. We also went to the 'piazza anfiteatro'. Unfortunately, same story as in Firenze. The amphitheater has been filled in, and is only recognizable by the arch-shaped doors that are all equal size except ...

I Think that I know why Florence is called Firenze in Italian, it feels like fire n zee city. good god was it hot! Lexie and arrived in Florence after a short trian ride from Venice, the city was beautiful there where cool old churches everywhere, ...

... further!  I like it!!!   (Smig)  I will gladly take the blame for this one.  I probably checked out of Firenze a night earlier than we were supposed too, but hey, this is like an adventure, we are smack in the middle of the Chianti ...

... --they even had a working catapult there! After 2+ days of very productive sight-seeing, we hopped our train to Florence (or Firenze as the locals would say).  I really enjoyed my second visit to Rome--it was soo action-packed, although following the ...

... later, we arrived at our stop in Florence, or at least we thought we did…After stepping off the train at the Firenze Rifredi station, which was what was listed on our ticket, we plugged our hotel address into the GPS. Within moments we realized ...

... bajillion pages of reading (but for the record, The Leopard is a good book....I'm just too busy being distracted by Firenze....) Quindi, allora, instead we've been discovering the great groceries, the differences between 3 Euro wine and 15 Euro wine, ...

Vatican City, Italia: The Pope and the ...