Today we took the train to Florence.
We spent 1½ days in Venice and thought that that was enough
however, after speaking to the concierge at the hotel, Venice has a wealth of
history and places that are off the beaten water way which sounded really
interesting. Perhaps next time.
The only eventful moment, was trying to get our water taxi
to dock at the hotel. It seemed that every gondola in Venice wanted to get past
at the same time but we boarded our train on time and headed off to Florence.
We asked the taxi driver “quanto costa“ how much was his
boat worth - 250,000 Euros, ie. over $300,000. It is molto bella and petrol is
over 2 Euro a litre, $2.40 ltr. No
wonder the taxi costs so much - 70 Euro
for 15 min ride to station.
The train is trialling WiFi and it seems as though they have
not worked it out yet – not working.
We arrived in Florence at 1:35 and we were at hotel by
1:45pm. And at 2pm we had hit the streets and a light drizzle of rain- first time on our trip. Colene soon broke all records and by 6:30 pm we were back in
our room. Michael is about to go and sit
in the street with a plastic cup in hand
.
We quickly realised that Florence is like Paris but with an
Italian accent. Its charm and beauty oozes
everywhere, and the fashion, well, Colene’s record can testify to that.
We found a nice little restaurant for a late lunch/early dinner and Colene opened a bottle of wine from Como and Michael indulged in a Jack Daniel.
The hotel room is very spacious compared to Venice. We have
a sitting room as well as a bedroom and bathroom. At Venice we basically had a
bed in the room and a bathroom.
Tomorrow we are up and out at 6:30am, off to Cinqua Terre.
Ciao.
Fanco Cotso inspired material wall
This is what a traffic jam looks like in Venice.
One of Colene's favorite shops, with and electric car out the front
tThe budget has just flown the coup.
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