Grand Hotel Mediterraneo

... of Roma, you're less likely to finda da englisha speakers. Farewell to Pisa and onto our hotel in Florence, the Grand Hotel Mediterraneo. Once again, we find ourselves in a beautiful hotel, this one sits on the banks of the river Arno and is a short walk ...

... yet another bronze copy of 'David' in that park. The first of many we were to see before we saw the original. To the Grand Hotel Mediteraneo which we were told was chosen because of its proximity to the town. The better hotels were way out of town. The ...

... of a relax! Tomorrow we head for Nice and then we have a whole day to do whatever we want to in Nice on the following day. Our Hotel is apparently only 200m from the beach (whatever ‘beach’ means there - we’ve yet to find out!) so we are ...

... both marble & bronze and when we were ready to lay down and sleep in the street, we took a cab back to our hotel and spent the next two hours lolling about, recalling everything that amazed us today. We had a 6.30pm dinner call to a working ...

... sandwich café in between all of these thrilling sites.  After the tours were over, we got ready for dinner in the hotel's grand dining room with the entire program.  The dinner that was provided consisted of a first course of pasta, followed ...

... as filas eram enormes...   Depois de almoçarmos na praça do Capitólio uma deliciosa salada grega, retornamos ao hotel para descansar.     Mais tarde já descansada saímos novamente para tentar passear de barco pela cidade.  Fazia ...

... duck), KOTO (a not for profit project that offers career training and guidance to street kids and disadvantaged youth), Mediterraneo (classic Italian) and Salsa (for tapas), Moca (for coffee). On ne peut pas aller à Hanoi sans faire un ...

... Cafe Another nice stop at the café in piazza Santa Croce with Nancy and Annette. The café has a name: Finisterrae, Ristorante Mediterraneo. We talked a lot; got some ideas about where I might travel after school ends - Elba, Sardegna, or the coast ...

Day 5: This morning we woke up to a spectacular view of the River Arno. Further upstream I could just see the Ponte Veccio which is a bridge that only has there are only gold shops and jewellers. There used to be only butchers shops on the bridge but the ...

Day4:   This morning we had an early start (pretty early when you're on holidays and relaxing anyway) at 7am for our 2 hour drive to Florence. Around 15 of the other people that we were travelling with were already all seated on the bus when we ...

In Florence we saw Michelangelo's David, the cathedral and Signoria Square... the Fountain of Poseidon... the Palazzo Vecchio... the Gold Bridge from the Uffizi Gallery... ...and Elizabeth Barret Browning's ...