roma e firenze

Bongiorno friends. We're in Florence (Firenze) at the moment. We are off to the Uffizi Gallery this afternoon. It's renowned for both its famous paintings and its queues of up to 4 hours. Luckily we got ourselves a reservation. We saw Michaelangelo's David yesterday which at 9.50 euro is pricey, but the statue itself is just incredible.

We went out for dinner last night with Jess who is our last friend left from a few groups we met at the port in Dubrovnik 8 days ago. One couple left us in Bari, another couple who we spent a few days with left us in Rome, but Jess has had almost the exact plans as us so we've been hanging out on and off for more than a week which has been great. As Jane said, it's meant she's not sick of me yet. Nice.

Rome was incredible. We saw the Colesseum, Roman Forum, Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain and most other big stuff to see in Rome but possibly the highlight was watching the world cup final in Circus Maximus with around 250,000 screaming Italians. The Romans not at the game then streamed out of their houses and into their cars to honk their horns and wave their flags til about 4 in the morning. Absolutely crazy.

We got to Florence yesterday and we leave on Friday for La Spezia which we will be using as a base for La Cinque Terra. From all reports these 5 towns are mind blowing so we're very much looking forward to it. We then head to Milan for a couple of nights before using Nice as a base for some towns in the south of France for a while.

So that's a summary of what we've been up to. Please do click and leave a comment below as we love to hear from you and check our emails at every opportunity. Otherwise drop us a line to our email addresses! Look forward to hearing from you!