After over 6 hours of flying we landed
at Italy, with the greeting of the sun coming over the Tuscan hills.
The airport was short and sweet. We caught our bus to down town
Florence. Our next task was to drag or roll, depending on the moment,
our bags through out the city in search for our hotel/residencia
– Johanna 1. Once settled and freshened up and a little bit
energy left, we began exploring Florence!!!!
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The Italian flag
being taken down Friday early evening, including a ceremony. We
don’t know if it is like that every day or that is how it
is every Friday night…. I guess we’ll have to go back
again to investigate!
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Jenny, shopping at the Ponte Vecchio!!!!
Definitely trouble!!!!!
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Our first shot together after a very
long two days. But what a view!!! We bumped into some American travelers
who took our picture of us. This was just the beginning of all our
fellow traveler friends that we met on our trip.
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The David….. well the “replaced”
David while the real statue is located in protected walls in the
academy.
We saw that later that week.
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Eric with his first Gelato!!! A delicious
snack or dessert and we hadn’t even eaten dinner yet!
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We heard reports of a group of nuns
who broke out of Vatican City heading north…. We’re
hot on their tale…. Do they look familiar to anyone….???
Mark?????