Now for my adventures of this weekend—
Saturday, everyone picked up and went to Bologna for the day…except Nell and I. Instead, we went to this amazing market at San Lorenzo. It is both a huge outdoor market with really nice but mostly affordable clothes (unlike US street markets), and a 2-story indoor market filled with the most wonderful foods. It really reminded me of Pike Place in Seattle, if that’s what it’s called.. I forget the name. We ate the most delicious sandwiches, fresh fruit, and dried fruit mmmmm. 2 American couples started talking to us as well, so it was nice to speak completely in English for once.
Later on, we had a romantic dinner for two with, again, amazing food (it usually is). MMMM proscuitto pizza, grilled vegetables, and a 3 euro bottle of wine (ha). We also ate this wonderful fruit dessert at some fancy place in Piazza della Repubblica.
Nothing too exciting happened after dinner/dessert—we got harassed because there were no guys with us (my wingman is always MIA), so we just parted ways and went home. Pretty disappointing.
Sunday Nell, Val and I took the train to Lucca, a really quaint town about an hour Northwest of Florence. The entire old city is enclosed by a huge, circular, brick wall, which was pretty cool-not gonna lie. We wandered around aimlessly, ate lunch, had ice cream, and decided it was beautiful but just too small for our liking. We hopped a train back to Florence, which we now more fully appreciate. It is small enough to walk around but still feels like a big city--mi piace moltissimo.
We took way too many pictures in Lucca…geez. Here are some…
we love wall.
their duomo
we saw a turtle in their botanical gardens
val and nell :)
dang.
we walked up on the ramparts. yay us.
Bing Opera tomorrow night!
Saturday, everyone picked up and went to Bologna for the day…except Nell and I. Instead, we went to this amazing market at San Lorenzo. It is both a huge outdoor market with really nice but mostly affordable clothes (unlike US street markets), and a 2-story indoor market filled with the most wonderful foods. It really reminded me of Pike Place in Seattle, if that’s what it’s called.. I forget the name. We ate the most delicious sandwiches, fresh fruit, and dried fruit mmmmm. 2 American couples started talking to us as well, so it was nice to speak completely in English for once.
Later on, we had a romantic dinner for two with, again, amazing food (it usually is). MMMM proscuitto pizza, grilled vegetables, and a 3 euro bottle of wine (ha). We also ate this wonderful fruit dessert at some fancy place in Piazza della Repubblica.
Nothing too exciting happened after dinner/dessert—we got harassed because there were no guys with us (my wingman is always MIA), so we just parted ways and went home. Pretty disappointing.
Sunday Nell, Val and I took the train to Lucca, a really quaint town about an hour Northwest of Florence. The entire old city is enclosed by a huge, circular, brick wall, which was pretty cool-not gonna lie. We wandered around aimlessly, ate lunch, had ice cream, and decided it was beautiful but just too small for our liking. We hopped a train back to Florence, which we now more fully appreciate. It is small enough to walk around but still feels like a big city--mi piace moltissimo.
We took way too many pictures in Lucca…geez. Here are some…
we love wall.
their duomo
we saw a turtle in their botanical gardens
val and nell :)
dang.
we walked up on the ramparts. yay us.
Bing Opera tomorrow night!
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