Florence

Florence

Florence was great! I have to admit that I didn’t see a lot of the city, but did see the essentials. I met two Ozzie Blokes and spent a lot of time socializing and drinking. We had many conversations of language and what words we use for certain things. There are surprisingly a lot of terms I had no idea the meaning of.
I saw the Duomo and the David statue. The 3 of us walked to the lookout point of Florence, which is a fantastic view of the entire city. It is the view that you would see on most post cards. We walked to the market most nights and made dinner. Spaghetti one night and pizza another. The first day I was there, I did some walking around the city and sat to watch the best street performer. He had wires in all of his clothes and bent back away from him to make it look like they were blowing in the wind. He would then pose as a statue for a while to look like he was a picture, frozen, but walking in the wind. It was great. He would move around a lot as well. Making balloon animals for kids and busting out wigs from his brief case to throw on anyone who posed for a picture with him. He performed for close to an hour and I enjoyed every bit of it. The best part is that I was kind of on the outskirts of the crowed and watched the whole thing for free. That is basically the gist of my Florence trip. There are a lot of English speaking students in Florence. Florence is a great city.
I had such a great time with Tom and Tim. Tim and Tom. However you wish to call them, that I stayed an extra night so we could all go to Rome at the same time the following day. So we did.

Kurt