As always, I slept
basically the entire way from Venice to our lunch stop. You might
have heard of it, its this little city that had really bad
foundations that make it's buildings go on an angle. Yeah our lunch
stop was PISA!
So because we were a
bunch of massive tourists, we spent nearly all of our time taking
cheesy photos, photo bombing other people taking cheesy photos and
running away from the dozens of men trying to sell us sunglasses and
other “designer” things... Plus it was like 35degrees so we also
spent a lot of the time following the shadows..
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| Me succeeding at life. As always. |
Once we had taken
enough cheesy photos to last us a while we hopped back onto the bus
where I slept the entire way to florence (all motorways look the same
no matter what country you're in so I didn't miss out on anything)
When we arrived at
our accommodation in Florence we were greeted with some incredible
news. For 3,50euros we could upgrade to a permanent tent. While this
may not sound all that fancy it was music to our ears, because it
meant we didn't have to put up our tents, we had a proper bed and a
proper floor and we could actually stand up in our tent. So once we
had all dumped our stuff and locked (!!!) our tent room things, we
walked into the city for our walking tour. We were told that it'd be
about an hour long and none of us were too thrilled about that
because it was still stupidly hot.. But the lady who guided our tour
was a local of Florence so she has all these really interesting facts
about it, of which I can remember none of them..
We saw the fake
statue of David, and we walked across the Ponte Vecchio and saw the
Duomo which is possibly one of my favourite buildings ever! And then
she took us back to Kiki and a leather factory where we would learn
all about leather in a blissfully air-conditioned room.
Basically all I can
remember from the leather place is that the whole proving that
leather is real by waving fire over it doesn't work. The only way to
tell is from the back of the leather (if it look suede then its
real), so yeah I've just saved you from buying what could be fake
leather (you're welcome).
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| I don't know what it is but I love this building! Brace yourself for a lot more photos of it... |
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| Inner classics geek freaked out over this... |
After the leather
place we went to a restaurant for dinner, and there was a bit of
mis-communication, because we (the people at my table) thought it was
just one course, so when a massive plate of pasta came out, we ate
all of it. And then the two massive plates came out. Rookie mistake.
While we were trying to eat as much as possible because it was
delicious, some of the group had opted for the steak option. One kilo
of steak. Most of them went halvies on it, but our fearless leader
Kiki ate the whole thing.
After the amazing,
but massive dinner, we headed to the karaoke bar. Yes, there were 30
tourists in the middle of Florence singing karaoke.. I think the
highlight of the night was when Marcel and Paul (both Aussies) sang
“I come from the land down under” in their really strong Aussie
accents. Thankfully I just watched everyone else sing, and then when
we eventually called it a night we made the long trek back to the
campsite, and into our beds (!!) where I basically went straight to
sleep.
The next day we had
the morning to explore Florence, so I walked into the city with Carin
and Rachel, where we spent the day in leather shops because they
wanted genuine Italian leather jackets (and they were because we knew how to spot the fakes). I did this happily for a couple of reasons, firstly because I'd been to Florence before so I'd seen the real David and all the other stuff, secondly, I love shopping, and thirdly, every shop had air conditioning. Once we had done our shopping
, we walked
back to the campsite in record time (it took 15 minutes to get there which included going up a hill, across a
river, and all in stupid heat = impressive) and then got on the bus and got
appropriately excited because we were off to Rome!!
But I'm going to
leave all of Rome for another post other wise you'll never finish
reading it... So instead you just get a really short post and then probably a normal length one next week!!
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