Florence

Me at Piazzale Michaelangelo

Canoli!

Gnocchi!

Bridge with jewelry shops

From Rome we took a train to Florence. In Florence we had a beautiful hotel right in the center of the city. Florence was much more manageable than Rome and was absolutely beautiful. We were able to easily walk everywhere. On our first day we went shopping in a market place and I bought a scarf. Then we went out for lunch and I had ravioli. From there we went to a bridge with lots of jewelry shops. After shopping we went to the city center and had dinner at this restaurant called Donnini. It was the best food I've ever had. I ordered gnocchi with pesto, and they gave us free bread and a free glass of wine. I had Cianti and surprisingly I liked it! The waiter told us that the restaurant owned a bar called Amadaeus near by and if we went there and told them we ate dinner there we'd get a free drink. We went for canoli's at this cute little pastery shop in the center and then went to the bar and they had live music, a guy around our age who was American playing piano and singing. He was pretty good and it was a lot of fun. We got a lot of free drinks from the bar and we made friends with the singer. It was a really fun night.

The next morning we slept in and then went shopping again the market place. We stopped by a sandwhich shop for lunch and I had a fresh mozzerella and spinach sandwhich. Then we went for a bus tour of Florence where we stopped at Piazzale Michalangelo which has a beautiful view of all of Florence. After the tour we decided to relive the night before and went to Donnini again for dinner, this time I had eggplant parmasean which was incredible, another canoli, and drinks at Amadeaus. Florence was absolutely incredible and by far my favorite part of the trip!