DAY 3 Italian tour

We were planning on sleeping in on Wednesday with plans to catch a train to Florence "whenevs" as Brody put it. We also thought that our hostel checkout was @ 11 at the earliest most likely 12. We had a early wakeup call as the owner came in at 930 and told us that check out was at 10! Yikes! So we ended up bargaining for a 10:30 checkout, although I don't think we moved until around 1015.

We ended up heading to the train station at 1030 just in time to barely miss the 1050 to florence... and I mean barely, we ran to the train just in time to have the doors close in our faces. So we caught the 1130 and were on our way to Florence. Florence is where I stayed with my buddy Dan from high school for 9 or 10 days in October of 2005. We saw the main sites, which included the Florence Duomo (see below) which is an enormous church with beautiful interior art work on the walls and basilica.

THE DUOMO OF FLORENCE

We walked through the city and through its world famous market places offering Italian Leather (supposedly the best in the world) cashmere, and many other local delacies. We walked to the brige of Florence that has the world's largest Gold market (most expensive, fine jewelry, etc.) which we scurried right on past (sorry babe). Lol. We got some good pictures of us on the bridge next to the markets and after grabbing a kebab decided we were reading to head to the next city... Venice.

we hopped on the next train to Venezia (Venice) which took 3 hours and got there at dark... to find a beautiful city, but we didn't have a place to STAY!

Love

-Dust