After a delayed flight due to bad weather at London City Airport we finally arrived in a rather grey and drizzly Florence 2.5 hours later than originally planned! Luckily we got through the airport quickly, and with a short journey to the centre we arrived at our apartment about 40 mins after we had landed.
Our apartment is right in the centre of the old part of Florence and is very central to all the sights - it is down a quiet lane just off one of the main squares. It is what you may call bijou (i.e small!) as it is basically one room with a small shower room and a mezzanine level for the bedroom above the kitchen but it is very nice. It is in an old building and we have to walk up two sets of steep steps to get to it!
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| Our home for the next few days |
After unpacking we went for a look around the area but we of course had our priorities straight and our first stop was to get gelato!
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| Yummo - they are not both mine! |
Thankfully the rain had stopped so we then walked to Piazza della Signoria with all its lovely statues and then through the streets to the Duomo Cathedral which is the biggest Cathedral I have ever seen!
We then walked over the Ponte Vecchio bridge, which is Florence's oldest bridge and is famous for still having shops on it, which was once common.
As it had just turned 7pm we were starting to feel hungry and noticed a queue of people waiting to go in to a restaurant so we thought let's join them! It was a very traditional, homely restaurant and the menu was all in Italian so I asked the waitress to recommend some dishes and Peter went for meatloaf in courgette (yes it was as weird as it sounds and I am glad I didn't go for it!) and I had chicken cooked in sage with courgettes and roast potatoes - it was nice, and quite different, but I don't think I would order it again but glad I tried something of the region. And the wine here is a bargain! 2 euros (yes 2 euros!!!) for a carafe of wine which gave me two big glasses - it was cheaper than getting a soft drink!!
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