We woke early, breakfast then final pack and off to the
rail station to buy our tickets to Florence.
Pop worked out how we validated them just before the train
departed. Nice country side to watch as
we made our way to Florence. It only
took about an hour.
We found our hotel.
Just a huge doorway off a piazza – the room is lovely with soft green
furnishings, 14 – 16foot high ceilings and huge windows out onto a central
garden courtyard. Time to unpack and
have a rest.
Lunch was at the little café just next door, then off to
find an ATM. It wasn’t hard to find
where to buy our tickets for a hop on hop off bus as just up the corner from
the hotel was about 5 different young men trying to make a living selling the
tickets.
The bus took us firstly to Michael Angelo Piazzale. This is
set high on a hill top overlooking the city of Florence. In the centre of this area is a copy of
Michael Angelo’s ‘David’. It is very
picturesque. We wandered about taking in
the views. We bought a couple of iced
teas, very refreshing on such a very warm day.
We just stayed on the bus and went around the whole circuit and noted
where we wanted to return to tomorrow.
Time for a snooze then a shower and off out to find
something for dinner. We wandered to a
large Night Market. We walked on through
to a nice outdoor restaurant called ‘Za
Za’. On our way back we came across a
lovely leather shop. Lots of beautiful
bags to choose from, will have to sleep on it and return tomorrow. We found an ice cream shop just around the
corner from our hotel – Florentine Cream – my new favourite flavour, so
yummy. Nice way to end a day in this
fascinating city.
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