Florence Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals - Page 22

In early August I took 10 days to reaquaint myself with some of the greater attractions of Italy. In such a short timespan I hit Pisa, Florence, Roma, the Vatican, Naples, Isle of Capri, Pompei, and Venice. There's just something about sipping cappachino at an outdoor cafe' and people watching that appeals to me.

Study Abroad program Fall of 2006 to Spring of 2007. Started in China for 5 months and then went to Europe where I traveled to 15 countries and 27 cities in 4 months. WOW.

Eight days backpacking through Venice, Florence, Pisa and Treviso...

Getting ready to teach English in China for a year.

12 days from Napoli to Milano...

And so to Firenze.  I stayed at a hostel that had one of the most interesting breakfasts included in the price - you could choose from cereal or eggs cooked a variety of ways (first time I've ever had a cooked-to-order free breakfast), plus there was a very random buffet: fruit, cake, chips, mini sandwiches, and what looked like leftover pasta & pizza & risotto (not sure where it was leftover from, as they didn't serve other meals), plus some grey gloopy stuff that could ha…

bus ride today from Venice to Florence stopped to see the leaning tower of pisa around lunch time, not quite as impressive as I thought it would be, but still fantastic, got some nice pictures of it, but didnt bother doing any funny ones holding it up or pushing it over, just couldnt be bothered at that point, and was hungry for some lunch.  went into a fancy restaurant with a couple of the girls, very cut waiter, lovely smile quite attentive got to lovely hotel at 5ish and made the mi…

This trip was a blast, my cousin Nathan and I drove through Europe in a Peugeot 206. We went 17,000 klm in just 21 days. From Italy to Spain, to the Netherlands and back to the UK. It was a great trip and I miss France the most.

Sydney-Japan, Japan-Italy, Italy-London, London-Japan, Japan-Sydney. Five weeks. Incredible

J ai beaucoup aime Barcelone, tellement de choses a voir, une tres bonne vibe. Je me suis beaucoup reposee a Barcelone, ce qui est un peu paradoxal, etant donne que la plus part des gens qui y vont y font la fete jusqu a s ecrouler! Mais bon, apres deux mois sur la route, il y a des compromis que le corps n est plus pret a faire! J ai pris un vol Ryanair de Barcelone a Rome. Ce fut confortable et facile. En arrivant a l auberge, j etais dans la meme chambre qu un jeune Anglais qui avait fait…

Florence would be the first city I would stay in a hostel, and I was quite nervous as I sat on the should be 3 turned 7 hour train ride...Italian local trains kind of operate on their own unpredictable schedules.  So I get out of the station, the sun´s about to set, I´ve got a 60 pound pack on my back and a 15 pound pack on my front, cigarette in one hand, map in the other, trying to cross the busiest intersection, looking up at street names...a yellow VW bug comes around the cor…

The Leaning Tower of Pisa and lots of Italian soccer teams paraphernalia!

We didn't even do anything cultural here (except for the afternoon siestas) because we went during a holiday weekend.

i try to go on one good trip a year...so far, its been working quite nicely

Luego el jueves me fui a las 7 am a firenze en tren, llegue como a las 9 y directo al hsotel a dejar la maleta, y de ahí empezar a caminar x el casco antiguo de la ciudad que es el centro historico con sus edificios y plazas desde tiempos de la roma imperial, osea habia casitas viejisimas y otras mas nuevas, o mejor dicho remodeladas. Y luego de Pazar por piazza republica y piazza venezzia, que son las mas viejas, pase por el puente viejo que tiene tiendas a cada lado del puente y lueg…