When we left Rome, we hopped a train to Pisa. Got off the train at 8:30PM, walked about 2km to the Tower of Pisa, walked backed to the train station and barely made the next train at 10:30PM to Florence. It was a bit chaotic to try and find the right train on the reader board in Rome but after that it was better, not easy, but better. When we got to Florence it was after midnight and we tried to find the bus that they told us to take to the hostel and it didn't exist at the train station...So we finally gave in and paid for a taxi. At the hostel, they had our reservation for the NEXT night. Furious we looked up our confirmation email and it was our first OOPS! We did book the following night...so the hostel pointed us to a close hostel down around the corner less than a mile. On the way there we walked down homeless alley! So scary! Luckily I was with Randy...nothing happened but neither of us felt safe. We found a nice hotel instead that was closer and offered them much less and they took it so their room was booked! :) Praise the Lord! Yesterday slept in, and went BACK to the hostel to drop off our bags and walk stroll around the city. Had spaghetti for lunch and ravioli for dinner. Randy had some cool roast beef salad of sorts of lunch and something neither of us can remember the name, pasta with olives for dinner. Gelato in the afternoon! Watched the sunset from Piazza di Michelangelo. We saw, what I would personally say is my FAVORITE building so far...the DUOMO in Florence, Italy. WOW! After dinner we walked around this corner and BAM! It looked fake, so detailed so elaborate, so big!
Today we're finishing Florence and tomorrow leave for Venice...we think :)
Oh, and I lost my journal...I think on a train...so I started a new one that the first line reads "Dear journal, I lost you on a train somewhere near Pisa! I am going to attempt to recall the past week..."
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