Hotel Rivoli Florence

... .  Florence DID live up to ... and surpass ... all expectations!   Friday evening, after settling into our hotel in Florence, we went to dinner at "I Falciani Ristorante," on a hill that overlooked the River Arno and provided ...

  7 September 2007- Friday (Venerdi) - DAY 6 - Venice / Padua / Florence  Long bus-travel day.  On the way from Venice to Florence, we stopped in Padua and toured the Church of San Antonio, a towering, ...

... dinner at Zio Gigi, a small family run restaurant with fun and outgoing owners who regaled us with laughter and opera and lots of food. Some of guys are exploring the exciting Florence nightlife tonight and others are relaxing in their rooms or the ...

... Yes, I got in on the act too ...  Back to Florence . . . Uffizi Gallery We got to the Uffizi gallery in the ...

Today was a free day for everyone to explore Florence. Some of the guys shopped while others visited museums. In the evening a group of the guys attended a Catholic mass at the Chiesa di San Miniato al Monte to hear the Gregorian monks chant. Afterwards ...

... after a champagne toast at Colle Baretto. Our local guide Jon lead us on a wonderful walk back to the hotel through the streets and squares of Florence. We stopped in the Piazza dela Signoria to see the Palazzo Vecchio, the old Medici palace, and the ...

It's the final day of our Cornucopia adventure! We are heading back to Florence where everyone will have a free day to explore and shop for souvenirs. Tonight we will have our festive farewell dinner and celebration before flying home tomorrow. Everyone ...

... afternoon and met Eric and Robert who had also just landed from Boston via Zurich. We met Gary from San Francisco at the hotel Rivoli who was the first to arrive yesterday. We enjoyed a rainy walk through the quaint cobblestone streets to Colle Bereto, ...

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... the colors were a bit faded. We had as much art as we could handle and left to cross the oldest bridge in Florence. Just like Ponte Rivoli in Venice, this bridge was lined with shops. But all the shops only sold silver and gold, mostly in the form of ...

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... by myself because Regina Margherita and Amanda needed some alone time. Fine by me, I enjoy traveling alone :) It's a quick bus ride from Florence (only an hour), but it's confusing when you get off the bus because it's in the middle of nowhere. I met ...

... you actually tip over :) The top gives a wonderful view of the city, as usual. After that we left. We got a late a start in the morning so our day was pretty much full just from going to Pisa (it's about an hour and a half train ride from ...

... excited to recreate important scenes. Sadly, no one else was so I just looked at art. After two months of studying in Florence, I am currently burned out of museums and looking at art. After about five minutes of watching another artist's version of a ...

... all the way through Italy...as the saying goes "begin as you mean." After some lovely home cooked food in Rivoli and a proper bed in a nice hotel we headed to Moneglia in the Italian Riviera, lovely drive there but busy due to a bank holiday weekend. ...

... is grande off a canal with gondola station just outside. We will spend the next two days here sightseeing, then its off to Florence for 2 days then to Rome for three days then to Dubai and then home on 25th. Hope you are all well ...

... Nicole is from Boca Raton, FL, same as my grandparents and everyone else's. She and the other two girls have been studying in Florence for the semester. She will actually be back there until May 9th, so we're making arrangements via email to meet up ...