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Another day of events and sights for me, including the famous David statue, some small towns, and construction equipment in the middle of nowhere, which is quite significant in and of itself.
| 5:30am | The girl couldn’t sleep but I managed to doze off again, head tucked under a wing. I swear the room was freezing even though I had turned the gauge up to 27°C (or 82°F for the Americans amongst us). |
| 7:50am | Breakfast now over, it’s time to head north to Florence. I need to make sure the bus controls are working properly and that the luggage is stored correctly. |
| 10:30am | It took us 1 hour and 45 minutes to clear Rome’s ring road to basically go 7 kilometers. That put us a little behind schedule but I’m resting comfortably. On the drive, I made some new Pals -- Im and Lida. |
| 11:30am | Arrived in Orvieto, a little hilltop town, complete with a big ol' church, pottery shops and a guy that could be one of the allegedly non-existent homeless guys. |
| 1:50pm | Back on the autostrada (the freeway) and I got some photos of the countryside. It's sometimes gray, but there's occasionally other stuff to look at. |
| 3:40pm | And we’re in Florence! |
| 4:15pm | We walked to the Duomo, Italy’s biggest church. |
| 5:00pm | The Piazza della Signoria is where the statue of David was originally placed. But when a woman angrily through a chair out the window and damaged David, he was rushed to a safer, indoor location. The Carabinieri were near this statue in the piazza. We also stopped at the Santa Croce church for a few minutes -- long enough for these two pictures. |
| 5:30pm | Arrival at the Hotel Mediterrano was met with poor light so photos will be taken tomorrow of the exterior. Lydia, Rachel and I stayed in room 449. Interesting bathroom set-up with a strange shower door. I took a nap while the girl got ready to go on her dinner excursion… without me! Even though there are no age limits regarding alcoholic consumption, the girl’s morals would not allow me to attend her drinking dinner. |
| 7:45pm | After Rachel left, I went to the hotel dining area and had some bread and proscuitto (a pig product). |
| 10:50pm |
The girl got back in so I’ll let her tell of her dining experience per her request. Like, it was awesome. We went too, like, this eating place where they gave me food and wine. But they call wine "vino". Strange, huh? Cuz it’s wine! I had this yum-to-my-tum drink that was blue! And it was called Blu di Blu. I eight and eight and eight. They gave me ravioli with truffles, penne (it should be like spelled pen-ay though), weird potato wedges (not like KFC at all, man), a T-bone stake and coca-cola. It sed .33L on the side of the can. I dunno what that means tho. It was fun! |
| 11:50pm | You see why I don’t allow her to write very often. It’s painful and takes a damn long time. Bedtime for me! |