July 6, 2009 -Florence

Duomo Bell Tower

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Today we headed to the train station again. Fortunately the instructors knew how to figure out the train system and we made our way to Florence. We are right in the main city of Florence which will be much more convenient when traveling to different sites within Florence. We have quite the quaint little hotel room with shuddered windows looking right out onto the streets of Florence, and four twin beds squeezed into a room only meant for a queen. After getting settled into our room we met with our new guide to show us around Florence. It is such a lovely city with fun colors and lots of flower boxes, and hanging laundry. We made our way across the Ponte Vecchio that is full of little gold shops. We had dinner at a pizza place and then we went to the best gelato shop in town called Grom. I tried the peach and raspberry this time and wasn’t disappointed, it was so good. The shop is right next to the Duomo down an adjoining street. We did a bit of shopping around and then made our way back to the hotel.

Ponte Vecchio



Door Knob Brancacci Chapel Ceiling

Duomo Bell Tower