We just got back from a eleven day trip to Italy. I’ll be posting my travel journal entry, along with photos from each day.
What a day! It started around 6:15 when we got up, got our innkeeper out of bed at 7:25 (yes, we had told them we needed an early check out, but it apparently didn’t take). After refusing multiple offers of more breakfast, we hiked back up to our car and headed out to Florence. We were on a tight timeline and were already 20 minutes late! By the time we dropped the car off in Florence (after putting 3/4 of a tank of diesel in for 70 euros!) We were 45 minutes behind schedule to get to our reservation at the Accademia Gallery to see the David.
We grabbed our bags, hustled to our hotel, Palazzo Guadagni, to drop them off (got all the way through the check-in process with an old guy who was very slow and couldn’t really speak English) raced across town, ended up getting to the museum 15 minutes late, only to find the most disorganized, lackadaisical non-system ever! By now, we should’ve known… we’re in Italy after all! We waited in line to pick up our actual tickets, and then in another line to get in, all while almost an hour past our reservation.
Finally we got in and went straight to the David—just as amazing as pictures make his seem, and BIG! They have this cool fiber optics system that is monitoring all the cracks and measuring strain, especial in his right leg. After that, we breezed through the medieval wall panels and sculptures hall. 
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Tags: Accademia, Art Tour, Botticelli, Florence, palazzo guadagni, Uffizi
We grabbed breakfast at our hotel in a ballroom (!) then checked out and left our bags at the hotel and set out to do a little site seeing before our fast train back to Rome.
We set out for the Duomo, but got distracted by a fancy candy and sandwich shop called Gilli, so we went in and had a cannoli and espresso (today is the last day to eat sweets before noon, so we’d better make it count!)
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