On the way to Florence we stopped in a pretty "little" fishing village, Camogli, for our espressos and some huge delicious bacci ball things...
We certainly lucked out with the location of our Florence AirBnB, there was a bar literally 2 doors down, and other bars and restaurants a couple more mins walk away. Bellissimo!
The owners of the apartment left us some details on how to catch public transport into the centre of Florence, (and rough translations in English). Should've been a simple bus and connecting tram ride. A couple of minor snags... we missed our bus stop (the name wasn't exactly what they'd specified) and to make matters worse, their distance between stops is massive (not like our 100-200m stops in Adelaide). Anyway we walked back to our tram station only to find it barricaded off. There was a sign - we think it said "Tramline works from June-September" effectively cutting the line in two which meant we now needed to walk a couple of more tram stops to where the works ended... which way do we go, to the left or to the right...we chose wrong. Anyway nearly 2 hours later we reached Florence centro! Should've taken about 40 mins. Did I mention it was close to 40 degrees that day!
A real eye opener in Florence was the magnificent Duomo - a green, white, and red marble gothic cathedral with a huge cupola.
Didn't do too much else in Florence that day... by that time we were well and truly buggered - and we still needed to do the convoluted public transport back!
It's all part of the experience. You saw stuff you would not have seen otherwise. This reminds me of the time I was in London with you SIMON bhehehe. That baci ball looked great
ReplyDeleteYeah, although we didn't see the inside of a cop car :)
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