Thursday, May 27, 2010

Italy, Day 5: Travel day to Florence

Here's another travel day, so a little lighter on the pictures.

This is the door to our hotel. During the day, the shop immediately on the right has souvenir Tshirts, umbrellas etc pretty much blocking the door. That's where I got my (lousy) umbrella.


We went across the street and into an alley to get to our breakfast spot (part of the same hotel).

After breakfast, we did some laundry. While it was going, I went for a walk around to the harbor.


This may give more of a sense of the climbing I've been talking about. Everything is built on the side of the mountains.


When the laundry was done, we packed up and walked back to the train station. We caught a local back to La Spezia, then to Florence via Pisa. We didn't get to look for the leaning tower, just grabbed a slice of pizza at the station and jumped on the train. We checked into Hotel Globus, then went out to explore a little. Practically right outside our door was an outdoor market with stalls full of pashminas and leather bags! But more about that tomorrow.
We stopped for a gelato...



I loved this fountain...
We puttered around until about 6:30 or 7:00 when the restaurants open for dinner. We crazy Americans eat SO early! We found a great restaurant, but I didn't keep the name! Co-travelers,
do you remember? Very eccentric decor, colorful paint. I think we had some kind of little rocking horse statue on our table.



Spaghetti al Carbonara, mmmm.
More about Florence tomorrow!
Lessons learned:
Why didn't we take a cab to go see the leaning tower of Pisa? I don't think it ever even occured to us to do that. Or maybe it was the train schedules. Yeah, I guess we had booked in La Spezia and didn't have time between trains in Pisa. Guess I'll have to go back for that!
UPDATE: Totally forgot to add that this was the day we went to the Accademia to see (the) David!
They didn't allow photos inside, but lots of people were ignoring the rule. I wasn't brave enough to do that.

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2 Comments:

Anonymous Rich said...

I think the restaurant was Trattoria Nerone.

12:24 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

I loved the Masterpiece game!! Art Auctions were the best part.
(Thanks for reminding me about it!)

8:37 AM  

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