This place is so great. But let me upload my morning blog first then I'll continue. Florence is so great!!
Blog for the 22nd. Not sure what day of the week it is.
Matt and I are on the train to Florence right now its 3:30pm. After getting to the train station an hour early we were met with a strange new thing. Our train # was on the board but not our city. And being cautious as we are now we both kinda wondered what was going on. So I walked to the I and it was tourist info, no train. I walked back the other way and there was no info at all (after being directed there by the tourist office) Come on Rome! Get it together. The tourist office can’t even get me to the info office?!
This morning I already wrote about. Hostel morning. More like hostal morning. We headed out and took a new route to see some other sights before our train today. We saw another big church and then we went and saw another small church with a famous sculpture in it and then we went to another church with a crypt made up of bones. Really amazing. I’ll take a picture of the postcard. No photos allowed inside. Basically they have these rooms and they decorated them with human bones. Very creative use of the leg bones, pelvis’, vertebrae etc. Even jaw bones. Wow!
We walked back toward the ancient ruins from there and saw some new sides of the place which was really cool. And while we were standing there we realized they’d opened the gates to the big wedding cake building and you could climb up to the top of it so we ran over there and did that. It was great! Nice views. The building is just immense.
By this time Matt and I had about had it. We were tired and hungry and grouchy so we decided to go get some food and sit down. We had a yummy lunch today. I had homemade Italian lasagna and matt had pizza.
While we were sat there I realized that the statue La Pieta (one I studied long ago for a project) was in the church right by the hostel so we hustled over there and it turns out its closed during lunch time. So I missed it. Really disappointing. Matt and I had been to that church the first night we were in Rome but I wasn’t dressed appropriately for it so I didn’t go in. And since I didn’t know what was in there I didn’t know to send Matt in with my camera.
It’s a funny thing about these sculptures. They are so small compared to the photos you always see of them. I mean, wow! Its surprising for sure!
Being totally out of luck at that church we just jumped on the subway to the train station and here you have it.
Matt is so worn out its not even funny! He is really tired and grumpy today. We haven’t had a mellow time yet. Its been hard to fit it all in and have time to relax. Florence should be a little better but I didn’t read ahead and it looks like without reservations you wait in that line (the line with 1000 of my closest friends) So we’ll see how much we get to see. Should be okay I hope. If matt can power through.
Our feet and legs and backs and necks ache. This is an unbelievably grueling journey we’re doing. Ha! So much walking!!
Okay on to Florence. This place is great!! Really easy walking distance to everything and so amazing! Matt adn I were greeted by the Duomo right off t bat. Its on teh way to our hostel which is about a block and half away. Not kidding. Its a great location. Up about 6 flights of stairs but worth the climb.
Tomorrow we'll be climbing 463 stairs to the top of the dome to see teh view of Florence. No elevator for an option :) we might have taken it since we are pretty beat.
We put our bags down and immediately headed to the Accademia to see David. The place was closing soon so we hustled and got right in no line and walked around one corner and there he is. No photos allowed sorry. Lame too by the way. But we were thrilled. Florence has signs for everything. Everything is clearly marked and there are signs everywhere. We are really loving Florence! Thank goodness because Rome was about the end of us for sure!
We wandered the streets for a bit and then headed in the direction of dinner. Yummy! We ate at a restaurant off the beaten path and about 2 euros cheaper each. Matt finally had lasagna for dinner. No pizza. I had mushroom risotto. Oh so good! It was great fun! An american couple from San Francisco sat down next to us and we chatted with them for the whole meal. It was great! After that we walked around and took in the sights of Florence by night. Its so nice here. There is a breeze blowing. People are just out for a stroll and everything is lit up. Its great. Oh! And there are signs everywhere marking the way! Hurrah!!
We found teh replica David tonight too so we'll take pictures with him tomorrow. I stopped and had gelato at this place on the piazza and paid an insane amount of money for it. Oops! Was really good but oh my goodness.
Florence has traffic and crowds too but so far its not been bad. We'll head out early tomorrow :( and get in line to do the dome climb first then on to sightseeing after that.
Should be fun! Really loving Florence!
Pictures to come soon. I"m going to bed. Its 10:30 pm and I am exhausted! This dorm room is nice and the bathrooms are nice too so its a good follow up to the hell hole in Rome.
Pictures are pretty self explanatory. The dome, my gellato, matt taking night pics, street grafitti, us at dinner
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