The Italian Blog Part IV

Hey everyone!

Not a usual start I know, but this is a most unusual keyboard. I couldnt sign in for ages as a few of the keys had been swapped around. Try and guess from this post, the first correct reply will get a fresh fish from the Genova harbour (of course it wont be so fresh when we get home - your loss)

So, a fair amount has happened since the last blog. We moved onto Firenze (Florence) and it seems the weather moves with us whereever we go, it just so happens that at the moment the weather is grey skies! Florence in itself is a wonderful artful city, and just about every other person visiting Italy seems to think so too. They have a wonderful gallery there, the Uffizi and on DEs advice we attempted to book tickets which to our suprise where twice as much as the listed price and the only tickets we could get was for the day after we left.

Netherless, we attempted to queue to get in. It semed like a smallish queue when we arrived in the early afternoon, but our attempts were thrwarted as the only times the queue moved was when people left it! We eventuallz gave up after a while of not moving.

We went to see the other sights that Florence has too offer, Santa Croce, Piazza Michelangelo and of course the Accademia to see Micaelangelo`s David. It was a shame really that the only thing of offer at the Accademia was David, nevermind.

In our plotting to Genoa, we noted that we had to change in Pisa. It actualy worked out cheaper to get tickets to Pisa, jump on a bus, snap-snap the tower, have a quick lunch, jump back on the bus and get the train to Genoa. So, thats what we did.

Today, we`re going to check out Genoa old town, tomorrow we`re going to Cinque Terre and Monday we move onto Santa Margherita and hopefully the weather will be better...