Firenze

Florence is wonderful as it should be. I skipped class once but with good reason... my roommates and I took a nice walk from Piazza Michelangelo down through the countryside and then back home. Piazza Michelangelo is one of the best places in Florence to go and get pictures of the city. I think the entire walk was supposed to take an hour but we took a bus to the piazza from our apartment which was nice and then the walk back to the Ponte Vecchio took maybe 3 hours. We stopped a lot to take pictures and enjoy the scenery. The first half of the walk was along a semi-busy street but with beautiful views, and the second part was a wonderful curvy cobblestone road lined with brightly painted old houses that made you forget that you were in the city at all.

The Run Down

Little Rock to Chicago and a hot dog
Chicago to Heathrow--- London and meat pies
Extended stay
Felt up by security in London
London to Barcelona several hours later
plane to bus to train to metro to hotel
walk on around town
food market, juice, chocolate, Picasso, soap, chocolate, Gaudi building, tapas, icebarcelona, catwalk, bed
antique market, food market, juice, sandwich, chocolate, british boys 'CHALLENGE', Gaudi park, olympic park, Gaudi building, chicago pizza....
Two taxis, empty ferry dock, walk in the rain, two taxies, ferry check in, no bus, security car and broken van to ferry, Antonino, A Room With A View, 20 hours at sea, Livorno, big taxi in the rain, taxi to Florence, circle Florence, wrong apartment, another taxi in Florence, right apartment no key, new taxi, GE represnitive's apartment, doner kabab, sleep, school, taxi to apartment, move in!