Florence and fire alarms

Trip Start May 16, 2006
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Trip End Jun 21, 2006


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Saturday, June 3, 2006

Fire alarms jolted us out of sleep.  Flashing lights and ear piercing beeps for about 30 minutes.  Everyone was standing in the hallway, bleary eyed and angry.  Dozed off to sleep to awaken to a train employee offering trays of coffee and croissants.  A few minutes later we were in Florence, packed full of pasty white tourists, museums, cathedrals and statues. 

A David
A David

We met up with Lapo and Allisandro who we were staying with. 

Lapo and friends
Lapo and friends

Allisandro was from Rome and was about the craziest driver I've ever ridden with.  We were given a tour and taken to a 'fair' that night which consisted of various fried foods.  Afterwords we went to a party in the countryside.  It was actually a group of politically progressive kids that had overtaken an abandoned elementary school and were having concerts and handing out fliers and t-shirts and such, supporting their underground political movement.  It was a pretty special thing to see.  Political activism on the grassroots level by young adults.  It's not something you really see in the States.  That type of "free speech" really wouldn't be tolerated to the extent that it was there.  We spent the night listening to the bands and talking with Lapo and his friends and also kicked a soccer ball around with a dog that would bite your ankles if you got in the way of the ball.  It all made for an amusing evening and one of the best night of the trip so far.
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