Florence

David, Uffizi Gallery, churches and squares, the city is ancient and beatiful!!

Our first night we had the apartment unit in the hostel and it was SO great, living room, full kitchen, it had it all, we were very sad to move to the normal dorm rooms after, but they were still really nice. We  spent a few hours in line to see David which was so great, he has recently been cleaned apparently so he was shining away in that big open room. We saw the repilica outside the castle as well but it was NO where near as stunning as the original! Another highlight was the Uffizi gallery, seeing da Vincis work as well as Botticelli was great, we spent hours just wandering around and looking at all the details on the paintings.

We did a lot of wandering and going in to cathedrals here as well, beautiful buildings all over as well as squares and fountains.

We took a day trip out to Pisa and saw the leaning tower, it was pretty surreal, it reminded me of something from an amusement park it was so strange looking, but VERY VERY cool. Apparently we were lucky cause there used to be chords and scaffolding (as so many places here have) but it was totally perfect when we were there thank god!

We were still not feeling overly friendly towards alcohol since Rome so we opted out on a wine tour but that was something I would have liked to do!!